account of the negotiations and intrigues at the Vatican, in ceasing to be dispassionate may suffer as a purely historical work, but its vigour brooks no denial and its literary excellence is acknowledged even by those who dispute its fairness. Great as scholar and man, too great to be always understood during his life, his memory received a tribute from men so different as Döllinger and Núñez del Arce, and it is probable that his reputation will only increase with time. In the historical novel Herculano had many followers. ANTONIO DE OLIVEIRA MARRECA (1805-89) wrote two laborious fragments in _O Panorama: Manoel Sousa de Sepulveda_ (1843) and _O Conde Soberano de Castella_ (1844, 53). JOÃO DE ANDRADE CORVO (1824-90), poet and dramatist,[669] author of a novel of contemporary politics, _O Sentimentalismo_ (1871), which contains excellent descriptions of Bussaco, wrote a long historical novel, _Um Anno na Corte_ (1850), in which interest in the actors at the Court of Afonso VI, in incidents such as a bullfight or a boarhunt, in witchcraft or the Inquisition, is skilfully maintained. His style in its sober restraint is superior to that of ARNALDO DA GAMA (1828-69), whose historical episodes of the French invasion of 1809 (_O Sargento Môr de Villar_ and _O Segredo do Abbade_), or of Oporto in the fifteenth century in _A Ultima Dona de S. Nicolau_, or in the eighteenth in _Um Motim ha cem annos_ (1861), are of considerable interest despite their author’s excessive fondness for Latin quotations. Perhaps the influence of Camillo Castello Branco may be traced in his novel _O Genio do Mal_ (4 vols., 1857). GUILHERMINO AUGUSTO DE BARROS (1835-1900) is the author of a novel of the fifteenth century, _O Castello de Monsanto_ (2 vols., 1879), of great length and dullness. Its chief interest is for the student of the Portuguese language, owing to its large vocabulary. BERNARDINO PEREIRA PINHEIRO (born in 1837) in _Sombras e Luz_ (1863) described scenes from the reign of King Manuel, and drew a strange portrait of King João III in _Amores de um Visionario_ (2 vols., 1874). But the mantle of Herculano, as historical novelist, fell especially upon LUIZ AUGUSTO REBELLO DA SILVA (1822-71), politician and journalist. His _Rausso por Homizio_, a short novel of the time of King Sancho II, written with the exaggeration of extreme youth, appeared in the _Revista Universal Lisbonense_ (1842-3), followed by _Odio Velho não cansa_ (reign of Sancho I), with similar defects, in 1848. In the same (the first) volume of _A Epocha_ appeared his short _conto_ entitled _A Ultima Corrida de Touros em Salvaterra_, which won and has retained popularity by its skilful presentment of a stirring and pathetic episode in the reign of José I (1750-77). Four years later Rebello da Silva published his principal novel, _A Mocidade de D. João V_ (1852). In its somewhat tedious descriptions the reader soon loses the thread of the story,