. Review of reviews and world's work. and Nuevo Mundo gives some moredetailed criticisms, some being reproductions ofcritical reviews of the first performances ofEchegarays dramas. Arrayed on the side ofEchegaray is a host of able thinkers, backedby that rather undiscriminating but importantfactor in matteis theatrical, the public. One ofthe dramatists admirers calls him the fore-most brain in Spain ; another opines that hebelongs, not to Spain, but to the world. Onthe other hand, one hostile critic points out thatEchegaray, the mathematician, is always at theelbow of Echegaray, the dramatist.
. Review of reviews and world's work. and Nuevo Mundo gives some moredetailed criticisms, some being reproductions ofcritical reviews of the first performances ofEchegarays dramas. Arrayed on the side ofEchegaray is a host of able thinkers, backedby that rather undiscriminating but importantfactor in matteis theatrical, the public. One ofthe dramatists admirers calls him the fore-most brain in Spain ; another opines that hebelongs, not to Spain, but to the world. Onthe other hand, one hostile critic points out thatEchegaray, the mathematician, is always at theelbow of Echegaray, the dramatist. Anotherremarks that he is ever an extremist,—that allhis jealous characters are OtJiellos, all his loversRomeos, and all his misers Shylocks. MenendezPelayo, one of Spains best critics, declares thatEchegarays plays are filled with beings not ofthis world and are impelled by a most impiousfatalism, while, finally, a facetious writer ob-serves that the effect of an Echegaray drama islike that of a violent l)low on the head. It cer-. KINU ALFONSO, IN THE HALL Ok THE SENATE, PHESKNTINO THE HOMAGE OF THE SPANISH NATION TO ECHEUAUAY. 614 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF RE^IEIVS. tainly causes one to see stars, but these starsaie unreal and not worth the blow. Echegaray certainly, however, received an un-precedented ovation on the occasion of the bestowal of the Nobel Prize. Acclaimed by animmense multitude, he stood with bared headbefore one of Madrids great buildings andthanked his countrymen for the homage paidhim. lu the Madrid Ateneo, a literary celebra-tion took place, over which the King presidedin person. Eulogistic speeches were read bythe famous Spanish novelists, Juan Valera andPerez Galdos, and Menendez Pelayo himself,Echegarays most uncomplimentary critic, statedthat for thirty years Echegaray has been thedictator, arbiter, and idol of the multitude aposition impossible to attain without the strengthof genius, which triumphs in literature as every-where. After describi
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