E S C O TO 



JOSE AUGUSTO ESCOTO 



Librarian; writer; editor. 



Jose Augusto Escoto was born on the 

 twenty -fourth of January, 1864, in Matan- 

 zas, and gained his early education in his 

 native town where he pursued the studies 

 leading to the Bachelor's degree, but failed 

 to obtain it there, because the Institute of 

 Matanzas like others throughout the Island 

 had been suppressed by the Spanish au- 

 thorities; but he received the degree in 

 1880 from the Institute of Havana. In 

 the same year he entered upon the study 

 of Medicine but soon abandoned it to 

 follow the stronger interest in literature 

 and criticism. 



The twenty years between 1880 and 

 1900 Escoto devoted to research investi- 

 gating and accumulating material on the 

 history and literature of Cuba, cooperating 



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