. Review of reviews and world's work. lve the problem of life in the other way,and school themselves to want very little. Thenation is sick of anemia, says this writer. Spaineats less than any other nation on the globe. TheSpaniard, says M. Ugarte, in conclusion, is polite,amiable, respectful, docile, upright, and we do not find among them any of the funda-mental qualities which should be the very muscleof the people, except attachment to the soil andsobriety, and it is not with these alone that a na-tion can defend its position in our age of industrialeffort, feverish initiative,
. Review of reviews and world's work. lve the problem of life in the other way,and school themselves to want very little. Thenation is sick of anemia, says this writer. Spaineats less than any other nation on the globe. TheSpaniard, says M. Ugarte, in conclusion, is polite,amiable, respectful, docile, upright, and we do not find among them any of the funda-mental qualities which should be the very muscleof the people, except attachment to the soil andsobriety, and it is not with these alone that a na-tion can defend its position in our age of industrialeffort, feverish initiative, and intense of the past will not solve problems ofthe present nor ward off perils of the future. To Unify the Spanish Tongue of all Countries. The project for an authoritative dictionary ofthe Spanish language, not only of Spain but alsoof Spanish-America, is discussed by FranciscoPleguequelo in an eloquent article reproducedin the Revista Contempordnea (Madrid) from theorgan of the Union Ibero-Ameiicana. He speaks. AZ(AI{)(A(iA. (Premier of Spain for just six weeks.) of the rivalry between nations to extend theirvarious tongues, each striving to gain universaluse for its own. Among the things tliat Spaincan do is to send the teachers requested by thesixty thousand Jews of Salonika, who wish tomodernize the speech they have kept so long,and to give aid to the Spaniards who remain inthe Philippines, who can help to make endiire,even in small circles, a language which, if it hailbeen adequately taught and diffused among tin;natives, might, perchance, have changed the fateof the archipelago. Overshadowing such ef-forts, however, would be the preparation of sucha dictionary as is proposed by the Union Ibero-Americana, under the patronage of the acade-mies of the different Spanish-speaking countrieswhere existent, or of the government or thehighest learned body where no academy -hasbeen organized. It would unify and preserve 350 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI^I
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