Verissimo, in my opinion, is the leading critic of letters Brazil has thus far produced, and one of the country’s greatest minds. His whole life was a beautiful attitude,--a serene, usually unruffled spirit open to anything that proceeded from creative sincerity. He is, as I have tried to show in the text, the spiritual opposite of Romero. If the student has time only for a limited reading of Brazilian criticism, he should approach Verissimo before he goes any farther. Verissimo had learned, or perhaps had been born with, the secret that beauty owed allegiance to no flag; he was not bogged, as was Romero so often, by extraneous loyalties; he erected no pompous structures of “scientificist” criticism. He was, what every significant critic must be, an artist. RONALD DE CARVALHO. _Pequena Historia da Literatura Brasileira._ Rio, 1919, 1922. The book was awarded a prize by the Brazilian Academy--as was the same author’s book of poetry _Poemas e Sonetos_--and appeared later in a revised, augmented edition. De Carvalho is a brilliant young man on the sunny side of thirty. His book--as, for that matter, every other recent one upon the subject--is under great debts to Romero and Verissimo, but it reveals an independent personality and an agreeably cosmopolitan conception of literature. For the facts--as distinguished from opinions--in my own book I have relied largely upon the works of Romero, Verissimo, Lima and Carvalho. The number of lesser books that may be read is far greater than their individual worth. I would suggest, merely as a starting-point for more individual delving, such informative books as the following: VICTOR ORBAN. _Le Brésil Litteraire._ Paris, no date. An anthology with many illustrations of authors. M. GARCIA MEROU. _El Brasil Intelectual._ A highly diverting account by an Argentine who was once Minister to the United States. ENRIQUE BUSTAMANTE Y BALLIVIAN. _Poetas Brasileros._ Rio, 1922. A translation into Spanish of a number of poems representing the various movements since (and including) Romanticism. Bustamante is a Peruvian poet of worth and has added short notes to his selections. LIVRO DO CENTENARIO. Rio, 1900. As part of the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Brazil’s discovery, the government has sponsored the publication of four tomes, which covered the culture of the nation. Volume I contains a resumé of Brazilian literature by the ubiquitous Romero, in which he slashes through the field in characteristic fashion. Very little has been translated into English from the Brazilian authors, particularly in the United States. As an example of the novel, there is, however, Aranha’s _Chanaan_, issued as _Canaan_ in Boston, 1919. In Boston, too, 1921, was issued _Brazilian Tales_, containing short stories from Machado de Assis, Coelho Netto, Medeiros e Albuquerque and Carmen Dolores. Coelho’s fine novel _Rei Negro_ (The Black King), may be procured in a good French translation under the title _Macambira_.