. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. parcial isa very importantpaper, with anafternoon editioncalled El Mundo;both of theseperiodicals havea large circula-tion. Others areEl Tiempo, ElDiario, which ison the advancedorder of our pop-ular dailies, and Correo Espanol, a Spanish paper with a splendid editorial staff of young news-paper men. The Mexican Daily Record, an afternoon paper printed in English,has a very brilliant editorial staff, and the Mexican Herald, another Englishnewspaper, is edited by an American. There are weekly papers which are very ably ed
. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. parcial isa very importantpaper, with anafternoon editioncalled El Mundo;both of theseperiodicals havea large circula-tion. Others areEl Tiempo, ElDiario, which ison the advancedorder of our pop-ular dailies, and Correo Espanol, a Spanish paper with a splendid editorial staff of young news-paper men. The Mexican Daily Record, an afternoon paper printed in English,has a very brilliant editorial staff, and the Mexican Herald, another Englishnewspaper, is edited by an American. There are weekly papers which are very ably edited, Aries y Eettras is themost popular. El Mundo Iluslrado is well illustrated, and deals lightly with im-portant events of the week. La Revista Literaria, is edited by Sehor Barronwho is a popular local poet. The first book printed in Mexico was La EscalaEspiritual para Llegar al Cielo (The Stairway to Heaven), printed in 1537. In music, Mexico records no great composers of old, those of her folksongs being unknown, but music is a passion with the people and musical. ?CHILDREN OF MISERY. BY SOSTENES ORTEGO. 232 MEXICO education one of the chief cares of the government. Public concerts aregenerally given throughout the cities and the nation maintains a conservatoryin the capital city wherein is one of the best libraries of music extant. Allthe great European soloists and directors look to at least one season in Mexicoas part of their natural experience and nowhere do they find more apprecia-tive and critical audiences. Two, at least, of the Mexican moderns haveachieved international fame, Antonio Zuniga, of Guanajuato, and Chang-Cilli,of Yucatan, whose orchestrations are familiar to and frequently used by Euro-pean leaders. Just now very intelligent efforts are being made to educate the artisticside of the Mexican people and although many of these take the direction ofimproving the arts and crafts for commercial advantage, the result is boundto be the development of individua
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