V ARO N A 



ENRIQUE JOSE VARONA Y PERA 



Man of letters; scholar; 

 teacher; statesman. 



Enrique Jose Varona y Per a was 

 born on the thirteenth of April, 1849, in 

 Camagiiey, and there obtained his early 

 education, later going on to Havana where 

 he graduated from the University with the 

 degree of Doctor of Philosophy and Letters. 

 He embodied for his generation in Cuba the 

 ideals and attainments of the classic type 

 of the parent race. A poet in his youth, 

 producing before he was yet twenty odes 

 and lyrics of marked promise, he went on 

 to achieve a notable place in the fields of 

 scholarship, letters, and public affairs 

 the arenas in which the men of earlier 

 generations in Spain were used to test their 

 powers and to exhibit their inheritance of 

 the Roman tradition. 



In all these fields Varona won distinc- 



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