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lated into English, Italian, and French); 

 Fiebres (short poems, much admired and 

 imitated in Latin America, the best known 

 of which are entitled Bogota and A Velaz- 

 quez. Although one by one Fray Candil's 

 sonnets make their first appearance in La 

 Esfera (Madrid) he contributes constantly 

 to many South American and European 

 reviews including Le Figaro and Le Gil 

 Bias, La Revue de Revues and La Renais- 

 sance latine. His work is received with 

 great respect by the critics: Azotin 

 affirms that " Fray Candil has taught Spain 

 to think and to feel"; Gomez de Baquero, 

 "Fray Candil has the melancholy and 

 sobriety of Anatole France, the aggressive- 

 ness of Octave Mirbeau, the scientific seri- 

 ousness of Taine and the roguishness of 

 Henri Lavedan"; the London Athenceum 

 proclaims him "the first of Spanish critics. " 

 At present, 1910, Bobadilla makes his 

 home in Biarritz, France, where he is 

 serving as Consul from Cuba. 



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