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Excerpt from The Eclectic Review, Vol. 12: July-December, 1856 Quevedo, and Calderon, should develops itself under the artificial rules and the false refinement of the period which produced Luzan and Velasquez. About the latter half of the Spanish indigenous genius had begun notice, and La Huerta, Yriarte, Valdes, and De la Cruz, boldly casting aside the Gallicisms which had defaced the literature of the fornier portion of the century, gave promise of a revival 'of the glories of their nation - nipped, alas! In the bud by the foreign wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and the apparently endless civil wars of later Years. What will be the future fate of this strange country? What new phase will its intellect pass through It cannot be that every social and moral problem should continue to be discussed with all the fury, bitterness, and passion which have characterized the recent political events of that country, and at that man's minds should not be violently mused to their west drepths. The struggle and the strife ragin on all sides, must st e some chord in the national mind whio shall make itself distinctly heard and felt; or if this should not be done, if the Spanish nation cannot exhibit some unmistakeable indi cation of the tone, temper, and feelings of its heart of hearts, all its recent revolutions will be but as a raising of the dust in the desert - a useless disturbance of the face of society, pro ductive only of sufl'ering and misery, but impotent to advance the happiness of our race. We ourselves argue well for Humanity in this matter, for the future well-being of Spain in rticular; for although much of the recent Spanish literature been sadly disgraced by a blind imitation of the worst school of French socialists, and although those whom it is the fashion to call the educated classes are in that country sadly tinctured by the atheistical principles of the Voltaire, Volney, and Sue schools, yet there is still prevailing in the mass of the nation, the peasantry, a strong faith and a distinct national character, which, if carefully directed, might soon enable Spain to resume her former proud position in the family of European nations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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