Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-22

! besides.
| BslisG Not l. It's only that you troubled me
With teasing questions aad perrerse replies,
So that stu 1lblsd aud looked round 10 see
Who would prevent ny fall.
| Riseio 60 LisardO) Sac falls again;
Be quick and help her.
Lisard9 to Belisa). Pardon me, lady,
! Aud forgive my glove
| Theodore. Who ever saw the like
Lisaydo An angel lady, might have fallen 50,
Or stars that shine with heavens own blessed
light.
TheodoSa l. 100, can fall; but It's upon your trick.
/ Good gentleman, farewell TO you'll
-lrranslation from Be,isa.
TIE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
/ Was continuation of the preceding one.
/ Calderon took the highest place in dramatic
literature; his relative feeundity offered
about two hundred pieces to the great Lope
de Vega.
euanto ell nacer, o cuanto,
AL MORN es parecldo
Pucs, 81 naeialos llorando,
Llorando tambien morImos
Tn getnido Ia pFirnera
Saliva fuc que al muddo hizimos,
Y Ell uliimo vale que
LIE hazemos es I'm gemido.-t Cal5eron.
| How much resembles here cur birth
| The final hour Of all
Wsepiug at first we see the earth,
| And weeping hear Deaths call
When first we entered this dark world,
We hailed i with moan
And when we leave its confines dark,
Our farewell IS a groan. -Ffransl3tlon
Mas facil sana una herido
Que no una palabra -lCaldsron-
sword.thrllst heals more quickly than q wound
inflicted by a ord.-I'rranslaton.
Ven, nluerte, tan egcOndida,
Que no te sienta venir,
Forque ell placer del morir
No me yuelYa dar In vida Calderon.
Come, Death, but gently come and STILL
All sound oi thine approach restrain,
Lest joy OF thee my h9agt should fill,
And turn it back 10 life again. Translation.
The timid eve beats not so mournfully
! Its shepherd lost, nor cries the angry lion
With such feTceness for its stolen young,
| as for Rodtric My son my son
Each shade pass, amid the closing night,
Seems still to wear thy form AMI mock my arms
| o. why, why cones ae not? gave the sign
marked the spot-and yet he is not here!
Has he neglected? Can he disobey!
1t may not be = Thousand terrors seize me.
Perhaps some injury or accident
Has made hun turn aside mis- fastening step;
Perhaps he may slain, or hurt, or seized.
The very ihpagat fteezes my breaking heart.
o holy heaven, how many ways Tor fear
Can grief fud ont But bark Whit do hear?
Is il MS iootstep? Caa it be? o, no!
/ am not worthy such a happiness;
| fis but the echo Of my grief hear.
| But bark. again Methinks there comes gallop
On the dintg STOKES. He springs from off his steed
Is there such happiness vouchsafed t. me
Is it my SON Translation from the Cid, De Castro.
De Castro, who first introduced the
s Cid, (" g Pirso de Molina, de Alarcop,
Diamante, 80 MoutaIvan" and 'Moreto,
created new style in the play, adding to
change of forms the vivactiy of inspira-
tion.
AMONG THE WRITER'S
OF that period were the poets Hoieda,
Jauregui. the Prince de Esquilache, Mira
de Mescua, de Villegas, Salazar Torres,
| Zalate, etc.; the romancers Velez de
Guerara, Salas Barbadillo, Cespedes Dona
Mariana Csrvaial and Dona Maria de
! Zagas; the historians and chroniclers-
| Antonio de Soils, Gonzales de Avila, Man
uel de Ielo, Moncada and Sandoval; the
political writers and casuists-Graeian,
Former, Palafox, Slavedra Fajsrdo aud
Escobar and ms school.
The next period marks decline of Span.
ish literature. The misfortunes OF Spain
reacted on the progressive spirit of the
nation. Bad and inferior works succeeded
| the excellent works of the preceding
period. Philip V. of Boarbon, grandson
of Louis XIV, having been proclaimed
King of Spain, could not, and perhaps
dared not, stem the invasion of French
customs and ascendency. French models
being generally admitted, there was no
reason why those OF England and Italy
should not; and so Spanish literature lost
great deal OF its originality.
THE REVIVAL
In this century has been, so far, very prom
ising Consideration should be given to
the efforts and the success accomplished by
such distinguished historians as De Tor
reno, Munoz, Maldonado, Fereros, De Nav
arete, Gonzalo, Moron, Pacheco, and ANA.
dor de los Rios; by eloquent political
writers, as Galiano, Minana and Marine
by erudits, as Duran, SALIVA, Torres Amat,
De Ochoa Pidal and Cortes by poets and
romancers, as Esponceda, Martinez de la
Rosa, De Saavedra, De Mora, Tapia, Maury,
Alfonso, De Riyas and Zorrilla.
The most celebrated Spanish writers in
our days are Emilio de CASTELAR, and Hartz,
enbush, who may be favorably compared to
the best writers of any country at the pres.
ent day. In conclusion l may state that
Spain, with regard to the number of writ
ers, and especially the poets it has pro-
duced stands second to none in the history
of literature She has not furnished such
superior lights as some countries, but what
she has lost in quality she has gained in
quantity. The Spanish language is emf
nently adapted to poetry. Charles V.
called it the language OF the gods, and
Raynal said that It had the brilliancy OF
gold and the sonorousness of silver.
E. KEMEN.
Sacramento, October, 1881.