The frontispiece of the present volume shows the monument in the Largo do Quintella in Lisbon raised to Queiroz by the devotion of the Conde de Arnoso and other admiring friends. The bust is generally agreed to be an excellent likeness, though the face perhaps wears a severer expression in marble than it did in life, and it has not therefore the photo-*graphic accuracy of the bust by Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro, a replica of which faces me as I write. The woman symbolises Reality, and her attitude shows her revealing the secrets of life to Eça’s scrutinising gaze, while the inscription at the base sums up his ideal and achievement, and reads: 'Over the forceful nakedness of truth, the diaphonous mantle of fantasy.’ The monument is the work of Senhor Antonio Teixeira Lopes, the creator of those two masterpieces, the bronze figure of History[1] erected in memory of the historian Oliveira Martins in the Prazeres Cemetery in Lisbon, and the statue in wood of St. Isabel in the Church of Santa Clara at Coimbra. [1] Pictured in the notable study by Senhor Antonio Arroyo, _Soares dos Reis e Teixeira Lopes_, Porto, 1899. He learned his business at the Academia Portuense de Bellas Artes under the well-known sculptor Soares dos Reis, and at eighteen went to the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he worked under Cavelier and Barrias, though the man who taught him most was Donatello. He exhibited at the Salon in his first year in France, and since then has advanced from one artistic triumph to another. His group 'A Viuva’ gained him a gold medal at the International Exhibition in Berlin in 1896, his statue 'A Dôr’ obtained a Grand Prix at the International Exhibition in Paris in 1900, and now, at the age of forty, he is hailed as an original genius and as Portugal’s greatest sculptor. CHILTERN, BOWDON. _March 1906._ 'Erasmus was wont to affirm that, in his studies, he had not found anything more arduous than translation, nor a thing worthy of greater praise, if well done, nor of greater blame, if ill done.'--Damião de Goes (the friend of Erasmus) in the dedication of his version of Cicero’s _De Senectute_. OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR I In 1474, a year abounding in divine favours for all Christendom, when King Henry IV. reigned in Castile, there came to live in the city of Segovia, where he had inherited a dwelling-house and garden, a youthful knight of untainted lineage and comely appearance named Don Ruy de Cardenas. * * * * *