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The notes, the direct-method exercises and the vocabulary have been prepared with a view to the needs of beginners. The editors are glad to take this opportunity of expressing their thanks to Professor Juan Cano, Mr. Antonio Alonso, and Miss Madre Merrill of Indiana University, and Dr.

In Europe generally the nineteenth century brought to literature a resumption of religious sentiment and of the artistic sense, with their appeal to the emotions, and lyricism became the dominant note in letters. The romanticists turned to history and legend for their material, rather than to contemporary life.

But about 1560 there flourished in Spain probably the most important figure in the early history of the national drama. This was the Sevillian gold-beater, later actor and dramatic author, Lope de Rueda.

Antonio García Gutiérrez was born in Chiclina, a small town in Andalusia, July 5, 1813. His father wished him to become a doctor, but his own tendency towards poetry was so strong that he soon gave up all idea of a medical career and went to Madrid to seek his fortune. Here he wrote El Trovador, which was promptly rejected by the dramatic managers.

Her versatility and just claim to her high position are emphasized by the ease with which she assumes her own rank at the close of the play.

Madrid, with all its unsightliness, was one of the most brilliant courts of Europe and attracted to itself the most gifted subjects of the realm.

His genius is uneven, but when at his best Palacio Valdés is one of the most charming of modern novelists. His better known works are probably La hermana San Sulpicio and La alegría del capitán Ribot.

Los que más belicosos se habían mostrado entonces, empiezan á decir que ellos se lavan las manos, y no faltan quienes esconden el pistolón, la belga ó el Smith and Wesson, "porque no conviene que lo cojan á uno con armas encima."

=Debió ser=, must have been. =El obelisco del Dos de Mayo=, above an octagonal granite base of four steps, rises a grand sarcophagus, square in form, covered with inscriptions, coats of arms, and a bas-relief which represents the two Spanish officers killed on the second of May, 1808, in the defense of Artillery Park.

Most of the plays of Lope contain sonnets, and they vary in number from one to five or even seven: in the present instance we have the medium of three. The décima is used in four passages and the octava in two. The widely varied scheme of versification is as follows: ACT I

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