. Cuba and the fight for freedom; a powerful and thrilling history of the "Queen of the Antilles," . 2 00. M^xf. ... . FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. 4OI judicious bullying and cajolery he has swayed thesee-saw as he wished. He has turned out Sagasta,as a mark of his displeasure ; he has allowedCanovas the title of Minister, but he has coveredthe old conspirator with humiliation. Meanwhile we may ask ourselves, Is Marti-nez Campos really the great military hero hiscountry takes him for? In character he is strik-ingly Spanish, courteous and cold, audacious, in-domitable, and despotic. Luck
. Cuba and the fight for freedom; a powerful and thrilling history of the "Queen of the Antilles," . 2 00. M^xf. ... . FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. 4OI judicious bullying and cajolery he has swayed thesee-saw as he wished. He has turned out Sagasta,as a mark of his displeasure ; he has allowedCanovas the title of Minister, but he has coveredthe old conspirator with humiliation. Meanwhile we may ask ourselves, Is Marti-nez Campos really the great military hero hiscountry takes him for? In character he is strik-ingly Spanish, courteous and cold, audacious, in-domitable, and despotic. Luck has ruled his ad-venturous career, and the army dearly loves aa lucky commander. He has literally cut his wayon the point of his sword, guided by the star offortune. Until he came to Cuba this last time, hehad never failed in anything he had may be that the fine figure he makes on horse-back largely inspires the kind of enthusiasm Bou-langer on his black charger excited in Paris someyears ago. The race is so vividly defined in thatfigure of virile pride, of composed dignity, of un
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