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nntry of the famino-Htricken province of Vornc -/h. 

 The latter grnixti-n, by the way, is said to l-uve i.-.-iied 

 tin- nioM notable statistical returns aiii-nic those 

 wliii-li formed part of the lar^i- ma>s of publieatioim 

 called forth by tliat frurful period of Millerim;. 



Spain. A> is Inil nat urul, tin- eontri tuitions to Colum- 

 bus litt-ruturc ealled forlli l>y tin- 'olunil>iaii qiiudri- 

 eeiitenary < fiitlmsiustically celebrated throughout 

 Spain i again lorin a noteworthy percentage of the 

 hutorioiU publications. Among tin; more important 

 of tin-so uro works by the Marquis de Hoy on, Juan 

 Lumanme <lc Novoa ("Cristobal Colon," a poem i, 

 Louis \ ulnrt ("Colon y Bovadillu y la Ingntitod de 

 Kspafiu"), Joa^uin Torres Ascnsio( Vol. I of" Fuentes 

 liistor'u-as so 1 1 re Colon y America," trunslutions of old 

 works', K. li. Vh agon ("La Patria de Colon"), Jose 

 Muria Asensio ("Martin Alonso Pinzon"), (Wireo 

 Fernandez Duro, Balaguer ("Castilla y Aragon en el 

 Desnilirimieiito ilc America"), Angel de los Rios 

 (Colon y los Montaneses "), F. Serrato, F. de P. 

 Vullador (" Colon on Santafe y Granada"), and M. 

 Sales Ferrer ("El Dcscubriimento de America"). 

 The Royal Academy has issued a " Bibliografla Co- 

 lombina" (list of all publications relating to the navi- 

 gator and his sons, Diego and Fernandez) and in 

 Vol. VII of " Documentos in6ditos do las antiguus Po- 

 sesiones de Ultramar" u Los Pleitos de Colon," and 

 tin- Duchess of Alva has published " Autografos de 

 Cristobal Colon y Papeles de America." The rela- 

 tions between the Spanish and the Moors, both in the 

 past and present, arc- illustrated in numerous historical 

 works such as Kduurdo Saavedra's " Estudios sobre 

 la Inoision de los Arabes en Espafia," the collection 

 of Hispano-Arabic historians (Vol. VIII), Francisco 

 Xavier Sirnonet's " Pericia geografica de los Escritores 

 Arabes," and the papers by Rodrigo Amador de los 

 Rios on monuments of Arabian art shown at the 

 quadricentenary celebration, etc. The number of 

 professorships of Oriental languages (especially Ara- 

 bic) at the universities has greatly increased. Na- 

 tional and local history have, as ever, received much 

 attention. Of the " Coleccion de Documentos ineditos 

 para la Historia de Espafia," the one hundred and fifth 

 volume,, containing the chronicle of Rodrigo Jimenez 

 de Rudo, Archbishop of Toledo, has been issued, and 

 two volumes of a new series, "Nueva Coleccion de 

 Doeiimentos . . . t " have made their appearance. C. 

 Miguel Vigil has issiu-d "Ileraldica asturiana y Ca- 

 taloiro armorial dc Espafia"; M. Danvila y Collado, 

 > Reinado de Carlos III" (Vol. I); and G. J. Gomez 

 de Arteche, " Reinado de Carlos IV." J. de Moret's 

 " Anales del Reino de Navarro " is completed with 

 the twelfth volume ; Benavides has issued u Glorias de 

 Antequera"; Pablo II urtado, "Indicios Cacereiios"; 

 Anselmo Salva, " Cosas de la vieja Burgos"; Jose 1 

 Puiggart, " La Tornada del Bruch'y Vindicaeion de 

 Itrnalada"; Viscount of Palazuelos, "Santa Maria de 

 I'orqueras"; Gutierrez del Cano, "Historia de la 

 Villa de Zaratan " and " Las Batuccas y los Jurdes " ; 

 Aguilar y Cano, " Hisn Belay : Estudio historico 

 acerca del Castillo do Poley " ; Juan A. Balbas, " El 

 Libro de la Provincia de Castellon " ; Emilio Grahit 

 y Papell, "El Sitio de Gerona en 1633"; Pablo Al- 

 zole, "El Arte Industrial en Espafia"; and Manuel 

 .lorreto, " Los sitios reales: notice . . . des sejours et 

 dependances de la maisoti Royale d'Espagne" (a fine 

 and curious bilingual work) ; and Vol. II of A. P. 

 (ia.-i-on de Gotor's " Zaragoza artistica, monumental 

 e" historica" (1891-'92) has appeared." 



The coiii.'ri-s.s of Americanists assembled at Huelva 

 and La Rabida in October, 1892, contributed much to 

 the literature concerning Spanish America, includ- 

 ing Matias Alonso Criado's " Paginas historieas de la 

 Kepiiblica Oriental del Uruguay," and Pedro Pablo 

 KiLrtirroa's " D'u-c-ionario biogranco nacional, o llis- 

 toria <U- la Litrnitura Chilena," etc. To these should 

 be added .luan Ft-rnande/. Ferraz's " Nahuatlismos de 

 Costa Rico," Francisco Fernandez y Gonzalez's " Los 

 l.eiiiruages hublodos por los Indigenos del Norte y 

 Centro de America," and F. Montero Barrantes's 

 "Geografia de Costa Rica" (1892), and "Elementos 



dell i-toria de Cocta Rica " ( 1892). The following are 

 named as worthy of note in archiuology und nuiniH- 

 maties: u Catalogo abreviado de latt kfonedad del l>r. 

 Gago"; "Apuntes para la Clasifieai-ioii <li: Monedaa 

 anligutw cHpuiioloM y extranKTaH," by (iomey. Imuz; 

 Santa Muria la Real de Najera," by (,'oiictuntino 



, , 



Garraz; und " De Llanos a Cobadonga," by Kor 

 And \'i>-ente MaiimUH's " La Igleeiu y la Democracia n 

 has lieeii eoiumi-ndcd. 



New works of fiction are : Lp. Alas, " El Senor, y lo 

 demon"; L. de Teran," Clara Obscuro" ; L. Taboada, 

 "Paginas alegre"; F. Tuwiueto, " La Ilembra"; V. 

 F. Lopez, Kl Filibustero " ; G. Tarde, "El Duelo"; 

 li. Perez Galdos, "La Loca de la Casa"; A. Pulucio 

 Vuldds, " El Maewtrante " ; J. Gutierrez, " Los Amore* 

 de Valentiua " ; J. Echegaray, " El Pcxler de la Im- 

 potencia"; J. J. Franco, " Mason v Musona" (1892, 

 ii vols. ). Jacinto Benaveute's " Coleccion de Cartas 

 (!> Mujeres " is said to reveal a delicate observation of 

 the female heart. Poetry and the drama have not re- 

 ceived much attention. In the former there it prac- 

 tically nothing to record except a few' poems by Cam- 

 poanior (of which, too, Columbus is the subject). 

 Juan Perez de Guzman has published " Cancionero 

 de la Rosa" and " Cancionero de Benores " (selections 

 from the poetry of sixteenth and seventeenth century 

 authors), Menendez y Pelayo, a digressive "Antologia 

 de Poetas Llricos Castellanos " (Vols. I-IV), and an 

 anthology of Spanish-American poetry has been an- 

 nounced. In dramatic literature there is little of note. 

 except, perhaps, " Mariana " (" a realistic study of 

 modern society") and "Dolores," two comedies by 

 Jose Echegaray, and a drama by his brother Miguel. 

 As usual, there are many translations in the list 01 the 

 year's literary product. 



Sweden. Ihe rich literary productiveness of the 

 preceding year appears to have been succeeded in 

 1893 by a period of comparative rest. History has 

 been contributed to in O. Alin's " Carl XIV. Johan och 

 rikets stander 1840-'41 "; T. Andersson's " Svenska Un- 

 derhandlingar med Rysland, 1537"; continuations of 

 "Handlingar rorande Sveriges Historia" and of "Riks- 

 dags - Protokpll, Sveriges ^lidderskaps och Adels," 

 and O. Fredrick's "Nagra bidrag till Sveriges Krigs- 

 historia aren 1711-'18." O. Salomon has published 

 " Forelasningar ofver J. J. Rousseau " ; L. Norborg, 

 "I den kirkliga Bekannelse-fragan": O. Ahnfeldt, 

 " Utvecklingen af Svenska Kyrkans Ordning under 



Kyrkans 



Amerika''; and R. Y. Ilermanson, "Finlands Stat- 

 rattsliga Stallning " (published in Finland ). One of 

 the most noteworthy books of the year is the veteran 

 statesman Louis de Geer's " Memoirs " Y" Minnen "), 

 nvealing a noble and upright personality, and im- 



Earting much knowledge in regard to Sweden's recent 

 istory. A biographical sketch of the late Sonja 

 Kovalevski, the talented professor at the Stockholm 

 University, written by her friend, Anna Charlotte 

 LeffliT-Cajanello (through whose death Swedish lit- 

 erature has suffered a decided loss), has been pub- 

 lished posthumously, as have also the " Kftcrlemnade 

 Bref och Anteckningar" of C. W. Scheele (by A. E. 

 Nordenskiuld), in which that noted chemist's claims 

 to the discovery of oxygen are proved. 



Not only, as stated in our last review, have Swedish 

 authors to* contend with dittieulties in the shape of a 

 market restricted as to time and a limited circle of 

 readers, but their field is narrowed even more by the 

 publication of numerous translations frequently both 

 cheap and poor. The newly formed Authors' Union 

 proposes to "ostracize both bad translations and 

 translations of bad books," which will also tend to 

 regulate the scale of prices for literary work. As in- 

 dieati-d last year, u certain quality of restraint seems 

 to keep Swedish belles-Uttr in the golden mean be- 

 tween ultra-realism and extravagant idealism. New 

 works to be recorded are : G. Schroder, " En Tim- 

 mermarkares minnen"; F. Hedberg, " Fran Skargar- 

 dcn och Fastlandet" and " Arbetarlif " (1892); T. 



