GLORIA.— A NOVEL, by B. Perez Gald6s, from the 

 Spanish by Clara Bell, in two vols. Paper, $i.oo. Cloth, $1.75 



*'B. Perez Galdos is like a whirlwind, resistless as he sweeps 

 everything before him, while beneath, the waters of passion foam 

 and heave and are stirred to their depths. Some chapters of this 

 novel are absolutely agonizing in their intensity of passion, and 

 the surge and rush of words bears the reader along breathless and 

 terrified, till he finds himself almost ready to cry out. In others, 

 the storm is lulled and the plash of waves is as musical as the 

 author's native tongue. In others still, he drones through the 

 lazy summer day, and the reader goes to sleep. However, the 

 story as a whole is stormy, and the end tragic ; yet we are lost in 

 wonder at the man who can so charm us. 



*' It is throughout a terrible impeachment of religious intoler- 

 ance. If it had been written for a people possessing the temper 

 of Englishmen or of Americans we should say that it must mark 

 an epoch in the political and religious history of the country. Even 

 written as it is by a Spaniard, and for Spaniards, allowing as we 

 must for Spanish impulsiveness and grandiloquence, which says a 

 great deal to express a very little, we cannot but beheve that the 

 work is deeply significant. It is written by a young man and one 

 who is rapidly rising in power and influence ; and when he speaks 

 it is with a vehement earnestness which thrills one with the con- 

 viction that Spain is awaking. 'Fresh air,' cries he, of Spain, 

 'open air, free exercise under every wind that blows above or be- 

 low ; freedom to be dragged and buffeted, helped or hindered, by 

 all the forces that are abroad. Let her tear off her mendicant's 

 hood, her grave-clothes and winding-sheet, and stand forth in the 

 bracing storms of the century. Spain is like a man who is ill from 

 sheer apprehension, and cannot stir for blisters, plasters, bandages 

 and wraps. Away with all this paraphernalia, and the body will 

 recover its tone and vigor.' Again : * Rebel, rebel, your intelli- 

 gence is your strength. Rise, assert yourself; purge your eyes of 

 the dust which darkens them, and look at truth face to face.' 

 Strange language this for Spain of the Inquisition, for bigoted, 

 unprogressive, Catholic Spain. The author goes to the root of 

 Spanish decadence ; he fearlessly exposes her degradation and de- 

 clares its cause. All students of Spanish history will find here 

 much that is interesting besides the story." — The Yale Literary 

 Magazine. 



William S. Gottsberger, Publisher, New York. 



