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possession- in America. We cite: ('olio's II i- 

 tona di-1 Nuevo .Miiiulo" ( lii-l'n: Andres liocha's 

 11 ili- los liulios del iVru. Mexico, Santa. 

 ' hile"; "1't- las (ieiitcs do Peru," which 

 forms part of the "Ili>toria Apologelica " of 

 liartolome de la- ('asas; "Noticias Autenticas 

 del Famo-o RioMarafion" (in the " Boletinde la 

 Socii-ilad (ieogralia ") : the second edition of 

 Father Jose Coil's " Colon y la Kavida" ; and 

 three works mi the Philippines, L). J. Ra.jal y 

 Larre's Kxplnracion del 'lerritorio de Davao in 

 Mindanao." 1). F. Blunient ritt's " Los Moms de 

 Filipinas." and Father GaspardeSan Augustin's 

 "('oiiijiii.-ta de las Islas Filipinas." To these \\e 

 add : F. de la Yifiaza's " BibliografiaEspafiola de 

 Lenguas Indigenas de America." There is the 

 iiMial large number of reprints and of hitherto 

 unpublished documents relating to Spanish 

 a (fairs. In the series entitled " Libros Raros y 

 ( nriosos." there has appeared " Pio IV y Felipe 

 II, "a volume of the official dispatches of Luis 

 de Bequesens, Spanish ambassador at the court 

 of Koine (156#-'64), and in the well-known collec- 

 tion, " Documentos Ineditos para la llistoria de 

 F>paila," has been published the "Correspon- 

 deneia de Felipe II con los Hermanos D. Luisde 

 IJequeseii^ y Don Juan de Zufiiga." Thesetwo 

 lirotliers (Luis having adopted his mother's 

 family name, Juan the father's) were both am- 

 bwaadon at Rome. The correspondence of 

 Philip II with the princes of the house of Aus- 

 tria ( 1. V>( l-'!)8) has also been published in these 

 " Documentos Ineditos," as well as a volume of 

 miscellaneous papers (a "fragment of the chron- 

 icle of John II, of Castile, by Alvar Garcia de 

 Santa Maria [1428-'34], a narrative of the wars 

 in Harbary, by Fr. Luis Nieto, and another of 

 Meehoacan in 1605"). An abridgment of the 

 history of Charles IV and his son, Ferdinand 

 VII. lias also seen the light, as well as a volume 

 of interesting correspondence selected by the 

 Duchess of Alva from the archives of her family. 

 Other reprints issued are : " Loor de Claras mu- 

 nres" (fifteenth century); "Amenidades de la 

 Verade 1'lasencia": " Opuscules Literariosde los 

 Seglos XIV. ti XVI."; " llistoria de las Malueas " 

 (/aragoza. 1G09) : and Martin Na var ret e's essay 

 on the Spaniards in the Crusades. The Royal 

 Academy of History, whose interestingly illus- 

 trated - I'.oletin " increases in scholarly value 

 and importance, has not issued much during the 

 \ear. Of Fabre's "Documentos Im'ditos Relatives 

 a las Antiguas Posesiones Espafioles en Ultra- 

 mar." the fifth and sixth volumes have appeared, 

 while the publication of the chronicle of Catalonia 

 luring 1644-'53 had to be suspended after the 

 fourth volume was issued, on account of the deal h 

 of its editor, the academician Pujol y Camps, 

 on I>ec. 28, 1891. Norhasthe sister institut ion. 

 the Aoademia Espafiola, displayed its usual act i\ - 

 ity. Here, too. the demise of a distinguished 

 member Manuel Cafiete interfered with the 

 i-sningof an intended publication, " Caneionere 

 de Juan de la F.ncina." Caftete had also l>een 



in editing " Propaladia de Torres Na- 

 harro." The publication of the complete edition 

 of Lope de Vega's works has been begun by 

 bringing out Vols. I and II. containing his 

 "Autos y Coloquios." It should be mentioned 

 here. also, that an attempt is being made to sift 

 the evidence and prove the facts in the various, 



often (piite contradictory, chronicles of Spain 

 in a " llistoria (icm-rid de F.pana." whirh some 

 twenty academicians have begun to compile 

 under the editorship of Antonio (Ymovas del 

 Castillo. The most siiecosful historical work 

 has been Antonio Rodriguez Villa's "Juanala 

 Loca." in which his theories regarding Joanna 

 are based on extensive and can-fid research. 

 .lose (Jestoso y Perez, iti his graphic description 

 of an old and beautifully embroidered banner, 

 discovered in Seville and belong! nr to the. (Juild 

 of Merchant Tailors, speaks of 143 artists in em- 

 broidery who were working from the fourteenth to 

 the end of the seventeenth century in Seville alone, 

 being just eight times as many as were mentioned 

 one hundred years ago for the whole of Spain 

 (18), by Cean Bermudez. In the matter of local 

 Spanish history, a favorite subject, there seems 

 to be almost an overproduction. The ancient 

 monarchies of Leon and Galicia, the province of 

 Castellon de la Plana, the Ciudad Real, in La 

 Mancha, and Toledo, all have found their an- 

 nalists and historians, and this excessive pen- 

 chant for provincial history extends even to in- 

 significant places like Jarandilla, in Estrema- 

 dura, and Arcos de la Frontera, in Andalusia. 

 Whatever spirit of sectionalism may be evinced 

 by such efforts is perhaps furthered by the pub- 

 lication of various works bearing on the dialects 

 and literatures of the various races in the penin- 

 sula. Among such is a dictionary of the dialect 

 in which the works of the famous poet Ausias 

 March were written, with an essay on the Li- 

 mousin-Valencian dialect, by Jose Escrig y Mar- 

 tinez. But the spirit is fostered most, probably, 

 by the various modern literary productions in 

 dialect, among which the past year has brought 

 us : Rube y Fontanet's " Lo Trovador Catala " 

 and J. M. del Bosch Gelabert's " Lo Segador," 

 in Catalan ; " Los Pirineos " and " Trilogia," by 

 Victor Balaguer, an influential and versatile 

 statesman and author, of whose " Tragedies" (in 

 Catalan) a sixth edition has appeared ; as well as 

 others, brought out in Valencia, the Balearic Is- 

 lands, the Basque Provinces, Navarre, etc. To 

 the literature relating to much-discussed Africa, 

 Spain has made a considerable number of con- 

 tributions, the most important being " Estado 

 Independiente del Congo" and Jose Valero y 

 Belenguer's " La Guinea Espafiola y la Isla de 

 Fernando P6." which two appeared in Vols. 

 XXXI and XXXII of the Geographical Society's 

 "Bulletin": " Espafia y Africa," by Reports; 

 Perez del Toro's " Espafia en el Nordesie de 

 Africa" ; and " I -a ( 'nest ion del Golfo de Guinea." 

 by the late A. Canamaque. An essay on the 

 Spanish .lews, with special reference to these 

 of Majorca; another one on Juhudd Cersquet, 

 who executed a map of the world for John 1 <*f 

 Aragon in i:5I : a " Mitologia Popular," by M. 

 Cubas: a manual of prehistorical arehav'. 

 Manuel Pefia y Fernandez; a "Catal-- 

 MonedsAral'iu : o-F-panola>en el Museo Aroueo- 

 16gico Nacional," by J. de I), de la Rada \ 

 gado; a " Manual "de Nnmismatico." by Cam- 

 paner: M. Pardo de Andrade's " Los (Juerilleros 

 Gallegosde 1809." Vol. I : and Vols. VIII nnd IX 

 of J. de Moret's "Investigaciones Hist.'irica- (ie 

 las Ant iguedades del Keinode Navarra," complete 

 the list of historical works. In biography there 

 have appeared "Memorias de Gayarre " (the 



