. Review of reviews and world's work. anaz, the Semanorio Pa-trtdtico. In its brief pages it breathed the sentimentofthe national conscience, of national dignity, togetherwith a majestic spirit of liberty and justice, in a tone ofmoderation and restraint, and an ardor characterizedby the broadest tolerance. But the real pioneer journalist of Madrid wasDon Andres Borrego, before whose day peri- odical literature in the Iberian Peninsula hadnot cast off its national swaddling-clothes. Awider horizon was opened up by the appear-ance of this man, who was indeed a new figureamong his fellow-country
. Review of reviews and world's work. anaz, the Semanorio Pa-trtdtico. In its brief pages it breathed the sentimentofthe national conscience, of national dignity, togetherwith a majestic spirit of liberty and justice, in a tone ofmoderation and restraint, and an ardor characterizedby the broadest tolerance. But the real pioneer journalist of Madrid wasDon Andres Borrego, before whose day peri- odical literature in the Iberian Peninsula hadnot cast off its national swaddling-clothes. Awider horizon was opened up by the appear-ance of this man, who was indeed a new figureamong his fellow-countrymen, for his life, up to1834, had been spent in expatriation in Londonand Paris. He was an Andalusian of Malaga ;with his own eye he had seen, invading thePeninsula, the soldiers of Napoleon, and againthe mercenaries of the Duke of Angouleme (in1823). He found the press of his country crippledby excessive censorship, and the journals thatexisted filled with triviality and pedantry. Therewas neither courage nor sincerity in the little. NKliO AND BY EDUARDO BARRON. (The first-prize group of statuary at the Spanish Expositionof Fine Arts recently held in Madrid.) LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. 107 sheets which professed to guide public •? the force of an intellectual giant, he hadthrown all his influence into the balance of hiscountrys future ; he had long embraced theside of those thinkers and patriots who were therejected and proscribed among his fellow-countrymen. In writing to a friend in 1836, he says . I have placed mysell under the banner of thepeople, and my conscience has never accused me ofhaving deserted the sacred cause of humanity. Whenthe ruin of national liberty drove the stubborn defend-ers of that lost cause to seek an asylum in foreign lands,my enthusiasm for the peoples rights led me to fightin the ranks of the proscribed. 1 became one of themost active agents of that French press which for tenj <ars (1823-33) opposed with unwearied pe
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