[90] It may be convenient to point out that the _Arcadia_ mentioned in the text is a play published in the _Trezena Parte de las Comedias de Lope de Vega Carpio_ (Madrid, 1620) and should not be confounded with Lope's pastoral novel, the _Arcadia_ (Madrid, 1598). This warning will appear unnecessary to Spanish scholars. But the bibliography of Lope's works is so vast and intricate that a slip may easily be made. For example, Mr. Henry Edward Watts (_Life of Miguel de Cervantes_, London, 1891, p. 144) at one time mistook Lope's _Dorotea_ for the _Arcadia_, assuming the former to be a pastoral novel. This very curious error is corrected in the same writer's _Miguel de Cervantes, his life & works_ (London, 1895, p. 200, _n._) with the remark that "if any blunder is excusable in a writer it is that of not remembering the name of one of Lope's multitudinous productions." In the same work we are assured (p. 111) that of all Lope's plays "there are not half-a-dozen whose names are remembered to-day out of Spain; nor one character, scene or line which any one not a member of the Spanish Royal Academy cares to recall." If ignorance has really reached this point, the caution given in the opening words of this note may be useful to the general reader. [91] Sr. D. Ramón León Máinez, in an exuberant paragraph, sketches out (_op. cit._, p. 71) the continuation as he believes Cervantes to have conceived it: "Si más tarde hubiera cumplido su promesa de estampar la segunda parte de aquella obra bellísima, que indudablemente dejó escrita al morir, y fué una de las producciones suyas inéditas que se perdieron; cuán deleitosa y dulcemente hubiera hablado en ella de la prosecución de sus amores, de la fina correspondencia en lo sucesivo para con él por parte de su idolatrada doncella, del allanamiento de dificultades, del progreso de sus aspiraciones y de la realización de sus deseos! Allí nos hubiera descrito con la perfección, dulzura y encanto que él sabíalo hacer, el regocijo de su alma, la felicidad de su amada, el vencimiento de su contrario, los esmeros y desvelos de los amigos, el beneplácito de sus deudos, y su bien logrado casamiento con doncella tan ilustre, de tal hermosura y virtud adornada. El relato de las bodas estaría hecho en la segunda parte de _Galatea_ con encantadora sencillez, y con amenidad incomparable, como trabajo al fin de mano tan maestra y acreditada." This prophecy tends to allay one's regret for the non-appearance of the _Galatea_; but it is exceedingly possible that Sr. Máinez knows no more of Cervantes's intentions than the rest of us. [92] For particulars, see Professor Rennert, _op. cit._, pp. 64-119.