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and has founded the following magazines: 

 Letras in 1906, Biblioteca Cuba in 1914, 

 Don Pepe (devoted to boys and girls) in 

 1917. 



In 1909 he was made Special Inspector 

 in the Department of Public Instruction 

 and, in the same year, Chief Secretary to 

 the Police Force of Havana. 



Carbonell is the author of many articles 

 in the press and in various magazines and 

 has given special study to Cuban biog- 

 raphy, a field in which he has written much 

 and in which he has a volume in prepara- 

 tion: Los Proceres; ensayos biogrdficos de 

 cubanos ilustres. In particular he has 

 made a special study of the career of Marti 

 whose works are now appearing under his 

 direction in La Prensa, and whose person- 

 ality has formed the subject of various 

 addresses by Carbonell, particularly that 

 given on his election in 19 14 to member- 

 ship in the Academia National de Aries y 

 Letras. 



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