B ARA LT 



leader or inspirer of several movements 

 for the betterment of public instruction in 

 Cuba, and on two occasions has been sent 

 to Europe to study educational methods 

 there. The first time, in 1907, he traveled 

 extensively through Europe and submitted 

 to the government, on his return, an im- 

 portant report on his investigations. The 

 second time, in 191 2, he was a delegate of 

 Cuba at the Pedological Congress held at 

 Brussels. 



Besides innumerable articles, lectures, 

 reports, etc., which Dr. Baralt has pub- 

 lished in various periodicals, he is the 

 author of two textbooks for the study of 

 English and one for the study of Spanish, 

 and also of a translation into Spanish verse 

 and prose of Shakespeare's Hamlet. 



At present Dr. Baralt is Minister Pleni- 

 potentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of 

 Cuba at Lima, Peru. 



Publication: The Harmonic Method for 

 Learning Spanish, New York, 1896. 



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