After _La Prensa_, _La Nacion_, which was founded in 1870 by the famous Argentine statesman, Bartolomé Mitre, is second in importance, and has a large as well as distinguished clientele. It is large and metropolitan in appearance, and might be called the government organ. The principal evening paper is _El Diario_. _La Argentina_, _El Pais_, _La Razon_, _El Tiempo_, _El Pueblo_, _Tribuna_, etc., are the names of some of the other leading dailies. There are two English daily newspapers, the _Standard_ and the _Buenos Aires Herald_, each of which has a good circulation. They are both typical English papers in appearance and general style, although the Herald was founded by an American. The _Review of the River Plate_ and _The Times of Argentina_ are weekly publications devoted to shipping and the general financial news and interests of the country. The former has a well-established reputation as a financial authority in British commercial circles. _Caras y Caretas_ is a unique illustrated weekly which has a large circulation and is exceedingly popular. _La Illustracion Sud-Americana_ is a handsomely illustrated monthly, one of the best published anywhere. _La Revista de Derecho, Historia y Letras_ is a literary periodical of high character. The Spanish cavaliers left Europe just prior to the Renaissance, when the dark ages were nearing their end. Europe was then striving with the life which was soon to burst forth. The wealth of knowledge and art, which had heretofore been confined within the dark and forbidding walls of monasteries and convents, was about to be given forth to the world to which it belonged. St. Peter’s was then in the hands of architects full of new ideas, the great cathedral of Seville was nearing completion and work was in progress on many of the other famous cathedrals of that continent. This genius for building crossed the seas with the new colonists, and they soon turned their attention to the upbuilding of great temples dedicated to the Almighty. It was an age of wonderful activities in art and architecture, and the New World profited by it. It was not long until hammer, chisel and trowel were busy in all the new settlements, and their accomplishments now gladden the eye of the people of this age. The oldest Spanish cathedral in the Americas is probably at Santo Domingo, as that was first settled. It was here that the body of Columbus rested for a time. Cortez marked his subjugation of Mexico by the inauguration of great public works on which the newly-enslaved inhabitants of the country were employed, as did Pizarro in Peru. The great cathedral of the City of Mexico, the most stupendous of the New World, was begun in 1573, on the site of the ancient altar of sacrifice of the Aztecs. This is said to be outranked by only three cathedrals in the world, St. Peter’s, St. Paul’s of London, and that of Seville. The cathedral of Lima, Peru, is the earliest and largest in South America,