. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . ol (Is that cock for sale!) Quiroz was a poet, and very fewnurselings of the muses have written more verses than he. His fa-vourite composition was the sonnet. No important event could hap-pen in any quarter of the world without his making it the subjectof his verse. From Galileo to Newton, from Arago to Don Mateo Paz-Soldan,from Ca;sar to Bolivar and Napoleon III, from the wars of Jugurthato the peace of Villafranca, and from Pius IX. to Garibaldi, all men LIMA. 209 of note, all remark
. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . ol (Is that cock for sale!) Quiroz was a poet, and very fewnurselings of the muses have written more verses than he. His fa-vourite composition was the sonnet. No important event could hap-pen in any quarter of the world without his making it the subjectof his verse. From Galileo to Newton, from Arago to Don Mateo Paz-Soldan,from Ca;sar to Bolivar and Napoleon III, from the wars of Jugurthato the peace of Villafranca, and from Pius IX. to Garibaldi, all men LIMA. 209 of note, all remarkable events of ancient or modern Instorv havesupplied him ^vith the matei-ials for so many sonnets. Some yearsbefore his death, Ouiroz was eoulenl to ^vrite his poetry and reciteit in public, even in the street, to all \vho wanted, or did not want,to hear it; but at a later period, he was seized by such a passionfor fame and glory that he published his works under the titleof: Delirios de im Loco (Ravings of a Madman). He then becameas anxious to obtain purchasers as he had formerly been to Don Angel Fernando de Quiroz. Quiroz was concerned in several family lawsuits, and he possess-ed a small income. When he received the latter, he immediatelyemployed it in paying the booksellers to whom he was always in-debted, the grocer who trusted him for candles, and some othercreditors. The rest of the vear he lived on small loans obtained fromhis numerous acquaintances. The only furniture found in the chamber occupied by Quiroz was a candlestick and a bath, which last served him as a bed, and in which he always slept with his clothes on. One morning this modern Diogenes was found lying motionless in his tub; he had ceased to live. 14 210 LIMA. THE SCHOOLMASTER. A class which has now completely disappeared is that of the oldschoolmasters, who have heen replaced, we know not with what ad-vantage, by the directors of private colleges. Elementary education was an article to be
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