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tercentenary celebration, a series of ad- 

 dresses on Cervantes. He was also one of 

 the founders of the Sociedad Filomdtica 

 Cubana, and he was President of the 

 Section of Literature of the Ateneo of 

 Havana and Director of the Sociedad de 

 Conferencias. 



In May, 1918, he was appointed Second 

 Secretary of the Cuban Legation at Mad- 

 rid where he has continued his literary 

 work, contributing to the Magazine of 

 Spanish Philology (Madrid), and sharing in 

 the work of the Club for Historical Studies. 

 He is a member of the group of lecturers 

 who deal with literary topics in the Ateneo 

 of Madrid, having for his subject the 

 Figuras del Romancer os. His works are 

 included in Professor Fitzmaurice Kelly's 

 Bibliography of Spanish Literature and 

 have been found worthy of treatment in 

 the Magazine of Spanish Philology. 



Among his works are: Or i genes de 4a 

 Poesia en Cuba; Romances tradicionales en 

 Cuba (contribution to Cuban folk-lore) ; 

 Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda; Jose Maria 

 Heredia; Vida U niversitaria de Heredia; 



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