The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-18
laneda, and was written while she was on
a visit to his tomb in 1871. 1t reads:

laneda, and was written while she was on
a visit to his tomb in 1S4l. 1t reads:
The stored Past does not reveal, nor can
The Present show virtue so sublime
AS His! nor shall there any coming time
Though centuries take flight, bring nob.er
man.
Selfess he gave himself to one vast plan
OF Freedom. Europe had her conque o.
Who made her soil a desert in grim war
Fought for his brethren, solely intent
that he w
Might found with them a happy equal
state
Wherein the angel of Gods love should
dwell;
And in their souls. all peoples know full
That he alone is great who makes them
great,
That he alone is strong who rules them
free!
After the celebrated Heredia, the high
est place among Cuban writer's is given by
general consent 10 lSenorita de Aveilaneda
who was born in Puerto Principe in 1874
She began to write in numbers at an un-
usually early age, her first verses being
written on the death of her father when
she was only s.; al she wrote fairy tale
in verse; ''The Giant of a Hundred
HEADS,
public attention; at Is she had written a
comedy and drama.
Senorita de Avellaneda was not stu
dious and could not be persuaded to learn
the ordinary lessons in the ordinary way,
but her love for reading virtually supplied
the lack of the conventional curriculum.
She was induced to study French that she
might read Racine and Corneille, which
she Immediately became eager to declaim,
as her passion for the drama was as
strong as her poetic genius. She said her
self, in 1895: MY greatest pleasure as a
child was to represent tragedies with other
girls; in vain my mother tried to make
me learn drawing and music. / cared only
to read plays. When l was Is | played
the heroine in a tragedy given by anna
tours, and was so intoxicated by my sue
cess that / could not eat or sleep and
wished to go on the stage. My parents
forbade me to act again or even TO read
plays and my books were locked away
So then / wrote themW
At JIG, Senorita de Avellaneda was sent
10 Spain to complete her education, and
the sonnet 1.-The Parting which she wrote
at that time, is considered one of the finest
in the languages. Returning to Cuba in
a year or two, she entered upon or rather
continued her distinctly literary career,
writing novels, poems and tragedies. In
1910 she returned to Madrid, where her
fame had preceded her and she was
welcomed by the best literary society and
soon presented at court Several of her
plays were presented in Seville, Madrid
and other cities with pronounced success,
and fortune seems to have become her
slave. When her tragedy, "Alphonse
Munio" was published leading French
and Spanish reviews printed long and ex-
haustive criticisms that we're practically
eulogfes, At literary competition
in Madrid In which prizes we're
offered for the best eonnets COM
memorating the Queens clemency i'm
pardoning some political prisoners.
Avellaneda submitted one over her
own name and another In disguised writ
ing and with assumed name. That signed
by her was awarded the first prize and
the second was given to the other. In ad-
dition to the prizes. a golden laurel
wreath was presented to her and was
placed on. her head i'm public assembly
by the infant Don francisco. She was
appointed reader to the Queen (afterward
the ex-Queen, Isabella), Sappho. Corinna
the Spanish Melpomme were some OF the
names applied 10 her. Her Balthasar Val
era was pronounced THE highest achieve
ment OF which the modern drama can