In the original, Gazpacho, “the name of a dish universal in and peculiar to Spain. It is a sort of cold soup, made of bread, pot-herbs, oil and water. Its materials are easily come by, and its concoction requires no skill.” Mr. W. G. Clark has taken this name for the title of his lively ‘Sketches of Spain,’ London 1850. 44. Page 260. “Whene’er Don Juan,” &c. Siempre que tiene una broma El señor don Juan me olvida Como si estuviera en Roma; Y à un entierro me convida Para matarme de pena! Sea enhorabuena. Despues de melindres mil Canta Celestina el duo Que le han puesto en atril, Y aunque canta como un buho Todos la llaman Sirena. Sea enhorabuena. Cien abejas sin reposo Labrando à porfia estàn El dulce panal sabroso. Ay! que un zàngano holgazàn Se ha de tragar la colmena! Sea enhorabuena. El hombre à su semejante Mueve guerra furibundo, Cual si no fuera bastante Para despoblar el mundo El escuadron de Avicena. Sea enhorabuena. Hay en España usureros Hay esbirros à montones, Y chalanes y venteros, Y dicen que los ladrones Estan en Sierra Morena! Sea enhorabuena. En vano à tu puerta, Conde, Llegan los pobres desnudos, Que el perro solo responde, Y gastas dos mil escudos En un baile y una cena! Sea enhorabuena. Basta por hoy de sermon. Aqui mi pluma suspendo Hasta mejor ocasion. Si el vicio en vano reprendo Y escribo sobre la arena, Sea enhorabuena. The selections from Breton de los Herreros are taken from the edition of 1831, at pages 61, 63 and 71 respectively. 45. Page 269. “The celebrated Lista.” This celebrated writer was born at Seville in 1775, and in early life adopted the ecclesiastical profession, having therein principally dedicated himself to the education of youth, in which he has been eminently successful. He has written a continuation of Mariana’s ‘History of Spain,’ and translated from the French Segur’s ‘Universal History,’ besides several mathematical and other elementary works. In 1822 he published a volume of poems, of which a second edition has been since published, highly praised by the different writers who have treated of modern Spanish literature. They are however avowedly of the classical school, and their greatest merit must be supposed to consist in their elegance of expression. His critical writings are numerous and valuable. 46. Page 271. “Twelve out of the nineteen stanzas.” The stanzas 6, 9, 10, 11, 16 and 17 seem to be of his addition, and it must be acknowledged that they are in no respect inferior to the others. One stanza in Pindemonte he has not taken into his version. 47. Page 272. “Part of his first volume is taken up with imitations.”