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Con este volumen iniciamos la publicación de una nueva serie de textos para el uso general de las clases de español. Intentamos con ella responder a las nuevas necesidades creadas por el rápido y extraordinario crecimiento del estudio del español que a través de todo el país estamos en estos días presenciando. El caudal de textos utilizado para esta enseñanza necesita ser renovado y aumentado de acuerdo con las nuevas demandas. No creemos equivocarnos al interpretar la transformación a que...

SPANISH LYRIC POETRY TO 1800 It has been observed that epic poetry, which is collective and objective in its nature, always reaches its full development in a nation sooner than lyric poetry, which is individual and subjective. Such is certainly the case in Spain. Numerous popular epics of much merit existed there in the Middle Ages.1 Of a popular lyric there are few traces in the same period; and the Castilian lyric as an art-form reached its height in the sixteenth, and again in the ninet...

El Trovador is undoubtedly Gutiérrez' masterpiece. Interest in the play is quickly aroused, and well sustained by the rapidity of the action. Gutiérrez has not kept the classic unities of time and place, but he has kept the one important unity, that of action; since, although our interest may at times be divided between the protagonists of the drama and a less important character, we never lose interest in the former. The characters, although well drawn, are not strong. Manrique is a selfi...

The present text was chosen for an annotated edition as being both good literature and good material for learning Spanish. It is hoped that the experience of those who may use the book will justify the choice. It is intended more particularly to follow the study of a reader or its equivalent; but there is no reason why it should not adapt itself to other stages of Spanish study, according as longer or shorter recitations are assigned, and more or less aid given by the instructor. The purpo...

These Spanish Short Stories are, for the most part, realistic pictures of the manners and customs of modern Spain, written by masters of Spanish prose. All were written in the second half of the nineteenth century or in the first decade of the twentieth,—except the story by Larra, which was written about seventy-five years ago. And all describe recent conditions,—except the tale, partly historical and partly legendary, by Bécquer, which goes back to the invasion of Spain by the French unde...