individuals of corresponding station.

There has been added a series of questions and topics (Preguntas y
Temas) that may serve as suggestions for exercises in composition. The
questions follow the thread of the story, but they are not meant to be
exhaustive, while the number of topics for descriptive paragraphs or
additional dialogue can readily be increased.

Instead of the usual biographical data collected from many sources and
presented to the student in English, selections have been taken from
a life-sketch of Gorostiza written by the distinguished Mexican Roa
Barcena, who secured his information from Gorostiza's son. Naturally
the biographer has thrown into high relief the part which Gorostiza
took in the interesting events that occurred in Europe and in the New
World during his lifetime. We are mainly concerned with Gorostiza the
dramatist. Next to Juan Ruiz de Alarcon (1581?-1639), Mexico honors
him as her greatest modern representative in the dramatic field.
Furthermore, the play "Contigo Pan y Cebolla" is given first place on
the list of his many literary achievements.

This play the reader is left to gauge by his own standards. No two
individual opinions will be exactly alike, and the judgment of
non-Spanish critics will naturally be different from that formed by
those to whom Spanish is the native tongue. By good fortune there is
available a criticism of "Contigo Pan y Cebolla" written by Mariano
Jose de Larra, and to serve as a guide there have been included here a
few paragraphs from the pen of this contemporary of Gorostiza, who was
the foremost Spanish satirist and dramatic critic of his time.

Thus the reader has before him specimens of the prose writings of
three distinguished men. All three write in Spanish; yet all three
differ in style and in temperament. To those readers in America who
have hitherto looked for the best things with a backward glance there
should be a certain significance in the fact that two of these writers
are of Mexican birth.

E. McG.

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA

CONTENTS

NOTICIA BIOGRAFICA _Jose M. Roa Barcena_
CRITICA DE CONTIGO PAN Y CEBOLLA _M.J. de Larra_
CONTIGO PAN Y CEBOLLA
TEXT
NOTES
EXERCISES
VOCABULARY

NOTICIA BIOGRAFICA

Gorostiza nacio en nuestro puerto de Veracruz el 13 de octubre de
1789, de una familia espanola distinguida, cuyo jefe, el general D.
Pedro de Gorostiza, vino a la Nueva Espana con el segundo Conde de
Revillagi