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THE CUBA REVIEW 



Camaguey and Santiago. 



"Not one of the old Spanish towns 

 of Cuba but is a source of inspiration to 

 a painter," writes Sir Harry Johnston, 

 in the Chicago Daily News. "Camaguey 

 is nearly 400 years old as a Spanish city, 

 but it was a place of Indian settlement 

 for a long antecedent period. It is the 

 'all-white' town, where the 60,000 inhabi- 

 tants are for the most part of pure Span- 

 ish descent, and the handsomest people 

 in Cuba. No town in Spain is more 

 Spanish or more picturesque. It has 

 narrow streets, projecting balconies 

 screened by carved wood or iron grilles, 

 tiled rooms, thick walls, patios glowing 

 with sunlit vegetation, a sixteenth and 

 seventeenth century cathedral, churches, 

 chapels, monasteries and convents. The 

 steeples and doorways of some of these 

 churches (and of a good many Cuban 

 buildings generally) almost suggest the 

 Moorish influence in architecture which 

 prevailed in Southern Spain down to the 

 period of Columbus' voyage. Several of 

 the ecclesiastical buildings of Camaguey 

 contain magnificent altar-pieces and 

 handsome shrines of hammered silver. 



skirtings. One house is ultramarine blue 

 and white, another dull mauve and 

 white or pale green, maize yellow, pink, 

 terra cotta, sky blue, greenish-blue, of 

 apricot hue and gray-brown. 



"The effect, combined with the fronds 

 of palm trees and bananas, the dense 

 foliage of figs, ilexes, mimosas, orange 

 trees and giant laurels, the brilliant flow- 

 ers of bushes and creepers, the brown- 

 red tiled roofs, the marble seats and 

 monuments, the graceful balconies, the 

 white-stone colonades, the blue waters 

 of the harbor, and the magnificent en- 

 circling mountains, was daring, but em- 

 inently successful. One might undergo 

 at Santiago de Cuba a color cure for 

 melancholia." 



The Raja Yoga Schools Praised. 



The investigation requested by Mrs. 

 Tingley, into the condition of the Raja 

 Yoga School on Point Loma, California, 

 by C. Barranco, the chancellor of the Cuban 

 legation at Washington, has resulted in 

 hearty praise of the institution's system of 

 education. The State Department at Wash- 

 ington, likewise at Mrs. Tingley's request, 



•\ Street in Santiago. The citv is surrounded by great mountains, and these, with the beautiful harbor, 

 make Santiago a picture to be remembered. 



"In Santiago, the eastern capital of 

 Cuba, and now one of the most beauti- 

 ful places in the world, the solidly con- 

 structed houses — the Spaniards, among 

 many great qualities, had that of build- 

 ing appropriately and permanently — were 

 painted in tempera almost every attain- 

 able tint, combined with white copings, 

 winc'.ow frames, doorways, parapets and 



made an investigation of the school and 

 gave a most favorable report. It will be 

 remembered that recently articles appeared 

 in Cuban newspapers charging that Cuban 

 children were not well treated at the insti- 

 tution. The director of the Raja Yoga 

 writes the Cuba Review that legal proceed- 

 ings have been instituted against the news- 

 paper ptiblishing the story. 



