A brief outline must suffice for his successors. A spurious second part of _Guzman de Alfarache_ was published in 1603, written, as it would seem by one Marti, a Valencian, who assumed the noble name of Luxan. This, by the way, is one proof among many that the _Libros de Caballerías_ were not the prevailing taste of readers when Cervantes published his first part of _Don Quixote_ in 1605, or else it would have suggested itself to nobody to trade on the popularity of _Guzman_. In 1605 Aleman wrote a second part, in which he victimises the plagiarist in a fashion afterwards followed by Cervantes when provoked in the same fashion. In the same year came out the _Pícara Justina_ of Andreas Perez, a Dominican who wrote under the name of Francisco Lopez de Ubeda, with a she rogue as heroine, with exactly the same spirit and machinery, and an identical didactic purpose, but written in a tortured style. Vicente Espinel (?1551-?1630), who was otherwise notable for adding the fifth string to the guitar and as a verse-writer, published _El Escudero_ (_i.e._, Squire) _Marcos de Obregon_ in 1618. This squire is of the class of the Biscayan whom Don Quixote overthrew, an elderly man who waited on ladies--the forerunner of the footman with the gold-headed stick, familiar to ourselves till very recent times. He has led the usual life. The _Marcos de Obregon_ had the honour of contributing a few incidents to Le Sage. The soul of Pedro Garcia is not taken from the introduction, but put in place of what Espinel had written. In the Spanish story two students find a tombstone on which are written the words “Unio, unio,” a pun on pearl and union. One sees nothing in the riddle, and goes on. The other digs and finds--the skeletons of the lovers of Antequera, who threw themselves together from a precipice to escape capture by the Moors. Here we see what Le Sage did with the framework supplied him by the Spaniards. He took what was only Spanish, and made it universal. We can all laugh over the bag of coin which was the soul of Pedro Garcia, but who understands the story of the Spanish lovers without a commentary? After _Marcos de Obregon_ there follow mainly repetitions. [SN: _Quevedo._]