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* SONNICA.”
Except for Cervantes and, per- haps, Calderon, the Average Britisher has been unacquainted with Spanish literature. Fow writers of the Iberian peninsula) bare acquired world-wide repute in latter years. While the war was still waging, howerer, Vicente Belasco Ibanez created a e in England and America with The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." Several critics in the two countries bailed Ibanez us one of the greatest living ́ex- ponants of fiction. After a while; another party joined issue with the panegyrists, albeit none dis- puted that Ibanez was a writer of distinct merit.
The work named has been followed by two other, and all three are of quite distinct charac- rat, giving evidence of versatility. Until the otherday I had only read raviews, but I then came upon a eapy of "Sonnics,” the novel that appeared in the wake of the one which gave the Spanish author an international reputation.
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"Sounica" I read with decided pleasure. Reflecting upon the reason, have no doubt that the pleasure was due mainly to the historical interest. The book takes its title from
whase doings courtesan, woran in and out of the narrative, it parsonally I was much more attracted by the participants in the siege of Saguntur-for "Sonnica" is a tale of that prelude to the Second Punic War. We have a full-length portrait of Hannibal, and we catch glimpse of the youthful Sciplo, the Wellington of his time Hannibal was its Napol- That city of Megas Ciraccia around which the narra- | tive centres, Saguotum, is shown to us in detail, and a picture of nascent Rome is also presented.
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Grecks! Iberians are win, 106, 5d. nai). Ons paper in those who are behind those devoted to “Aristophanes and the mountains which mark of our War Party," and another to the horizon; · Greek Is he "Bacchr, into which he reads whom
have just the sniffsation of Euripides at disembark; bat wo his ovca pe from we are only sons of Zaoynthos, sophisticated Athaolan society, or of Saguntom, as they wish and his reaction - towards the to call our city. We are the simpler inspirations of nature. product of a thousand ́eneoun- |Several articles and addresses of fers by land or sea, and Jupiter the past few years will be reo- himself would be driven into a cognised under their titles of corner to tell who our grand- |“Religio Grammatici," "The Staic parents were.. Hisher came Philosophy,” “Literature and Re- the peoples of Tyrs with their volation," and "National Ideals.” red-sailed ships for the silver in the concluding chapter- from the interior; the mariners (“Satanism and the World Order" of Zante flesing with their)—the author observes that "the families from the tyrants of spirit which I bave called their country; the Rutulish race Satanism, the spirit of unmixed from Ardas, people from Italy, hatred towards the existing who were powerful in the World Order, the spirit which timės whea Rome did rejoices in any widespread dis not A yot exist; Car-ster which is also a disaster to thaginians of the epoch the world's ruler, is perhaps in which they thought mare at more rife to-day than it has been commerce than of arms-and for over a thousand years,” how do I do know how many
other peoples? You should When Captain Se ti and his bear the pedagogues when they gallant comrades died in the icy explain our history on the wastes on the way back from the portico of the temple of Diana!) South Pole, the command of the And I do I know perchance expedition fell on Captain (then whether I am Greek ar Iberian? Lieut) E.R. G. R. Evans. Soon My grandfather was a free-after he returned, and bad leisure dinan from Sicily who cams to for writing the book the world
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"We should not affiliate with either," said the shoemaker tersely.
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with the Numidian maid. Asbyte, who has followed him from Africa; but Hamilcar's son worship at the shrine of Mars, not of Venus, Then we see bim in single combat with Theron, the giant warrior-priest ol Saguntur, in slaging whom Hannibal avenges Asbyte. Then, we see the Saguntine envoys
Thus do these artisans sat the cold. You need fear neither of pleading with the Senate at Home for aid from that already modern proletariat an exemple in these if you are not carrying
NT Singapora.. rheumatism poison about with powerful protector, but Fabius the discussion of high politics.
TIT Japan justifies his title of the Delayer This was prior to the first you in your blood. It is an acid
T/T India. by persuading the Elders to tem-nawspaper. even reckoning the which only finds its way into im-
Demand, India ...... porise. Thus, After
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TT San Francisco) Exciting
54 interludes, daring dismissing the dialogue as absurd, enemy you can have.
This acid in the blood has an TT Java ......
& New York.} which Hannibal's Onslaughts We should remember bow
149 upon the walls of Saguotum are Macaulay
old Dr. irritating effect, almost like
T/T Marks repulsed, the devoted city is Johnson's
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Demand, Paris mam whelmed.
ant in the mass because books cles, and their tender surfaces
BUYING. and colour, and there need be no Graaks knew nothing of printing. Sometimes the acid concentrates The tale is told with animation were not general. The ancient are tormented by it, especially during changeable weather. heditation in describing the novel but they could hear tha .reat! ** good-very good.
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But it can be cured, for Dr. 30d/s. San Francis-) Jture-reinforced in the present they could inspect the master-the quality of the blood, enable Livy and Polybius in judging To return to the story, the the system to throw off the rheumatic poison. Enriching and Saguntines have been reduced to
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cases of rheumatism, amoog Demand, Bombay... 196 -case in relation to detalls is a overrun the city and slaughter
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A dying Greek. R. Macdonald, residing at 20. Demand, Calcutta 196 some doubt. Did the defenders.
Street, last Amisfeld
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Demand, Manila ... The rheumatism started in Demand, Singapore. 1111
11434 following dialogue?-which-rushing past on horseback. It reproduced at length for the was the Carthaginian chief: my feet," explained Mr. Mac- Deraad, Batavia ...
Hannibal galloped or around donald, but soon the pain and a haiphong th- upon
the city, and, beholding the par stiffness spread to my hands and On Baigon
then up my arms. I tried all On Bangkok plish glow of the coming day
cores," bat Sovereign breaking over the sea, he rein! sorts of so-called "
instance by acquaintance with pieces of sculpture.
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