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contributing to important magazines and 

 discnrsos oratorios before the Royal Acad- 

 emy of Jurisprudence, the Ateneo and 

 other learned societies. In 1898, he re- 

 turned to Cuba but remained only three 

 years, retracing his steps to Spain in 1001, 

 where he devoted himself to literary criti- 

 cism. 



At the end of 1906 he again resumed his 

 residence in Cuba and in 1909, when Gen- 

 eral Jos6 Miguel Gomez was elected Presi- 

 dent, Serior Aramburo was appointed 

 Minister to Chile a post which he filled 

 until 1 9 13. Under the Gomez administra- 

 tion he arbitrated, in association with a 

 Spanish appointee, a complaint of judicial 

 injustice to a Spanish subject; the findings 

 are given in his pamphlet Proyecto de laudo 

 voto particular (191 7). His other writ- 

 ings are: Personalidad liter aria de dona 

 Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda (1898); 

 Origin, desarrollo y decadencia de la tragedia 

 griega (1890); Estudio de las causas que 

 determinan, modifican y extinguen la capaci- 

 dad civil (1894); Impresiones y juicios 

 (1901); Monografas oratorios (1906); Liter- 



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