. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. k hiscountrymen to originaldocuments of historyfor their example was fol-lowed by Jose Bar-cena, Dr. E. Gonzalez,Manuel Orozco y Berra,Lie. Luis Gutierrez andOtero. Other writers inserious vein about theircountry have been Ma-fias Romero, so longminister to Washington,Antonio Garcia Cubas,and Ignacio Mariscal,the late distinguishedSecretary of ForeignAffairs, a writer of greatability. He was a lin-guist, speaking perfectly several languages. He has written important works onthe occult and was a graceful t
. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. k hiscountrymen to originaldocuments of historyfor their example was fol-lowed by Jose Bar-cena, Dr. E. Gonzalez,Manuel Orozco y Berra,Lie. Luis Gutierrez andOtero. Other writers inserious vein about theircountry have been Ma-fias Romero, so longminister to Washington,Antonio Garcia Cubas,and Ignacio Mariscal,the late distinguishedSecretary of ForeignAffairs, a writer of greatability. He was a lin-guist, speaking perfectly several languages. He has written important works onthe occult and was a graceful translator of some of the choicest poems in Englishliterature, among them Poes Raven and William Cullen Bryants Thanatopsis,whose noble lines expressed much of his own aspirations. Francisco de la Barra, the Mexican Ambassador at Washington is a writerof note. Fredrico Gamboa is among the best writers of fiction. Sehor Justo Sierra, one of the most virile and forceful of poets, has taken greatrank in Spain as well as in his own country. He is one of the Ministers of the. •A PORTRAIT. BY HERMAN GEDOVIUS. ART AND LITERATURE 229 Cabinet, but his literary work continues even with his dignity of position andarduous duty attending it. The historical works by Carlos Pereyra, author of Lecturas HistoricasMejicanas, Historia del Pueblo Mejicano, which comprise a full story of theMexicans from the early period before the Conquest to the present day, arevery interesting and show a great knowledge of the important events of theMexican nation as well as the characteristics of the people. His style is easyand graceful, avoiding the dryness of most works of this kind, and full ofromance from the beginning to the end. Among the Mexican novelists one finds remarkably good descriptive power;just as the country glows with intense life and color, so do their fiction andpoetry express fervid passion and feeling. There is a tendency to epigrammaticterseness in sentence and paragraph. There is invar
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