and purity, reached the close of his useful and brilliant career in 1894, at sixty years of age. Don Felix Cipriano Coronel Zegarra, of the Spanish Royal Academy, one of the most illustrious scholars of Peru and a member of the Athenæum, collected a great deal of valuable information relating to the literature of his country, and his _Notes for a Literary History of Peru_, now in possession of the Faculty of Letters of the University, contains sufficient material for a literary encyclopædia. [Illustration: COLUMBUS BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA. BY IGNACIO MERINO.] The present president of the Athenæum is Dr. Javier Prado y Ugarteche, Dean of the Faculty of Letters of the University, a statesman and diplomatist, as well as an author of distinction. His book on the condition of Peru during the viceroyalty is one of the most interesting studies in sociology written within recent years. Dr. Prado y Ugarteche is a booklover of fine judgment, and he possesses one of the largest and most valuable libraries in America. His brother, Dr. Mariano Prado y Ugarteche, is also a statesman and a bibliophilist. He is the author of important works on literature and Incaic history. As a member of the Athenæum, and as vice-president of the Historical Institute, he has done much to promote the success of both these organizations. Another prominent member of the Athenæum, who is secretary of the Historical Institute as well, Don José Toribio Polo, occupies a unique place among Peruvian scholars as a bibliographer and a literary critic. He was formerly Dr. Palma’s assistant in the directorate of the National Library, and to his patient investigation of ancient documents is due the elucidation of many facts in the past history of the country, his thorough knowledge of Peruvian chronicles giving especial value to the critical studies he has made of various historical works. [Illustration: THE DISILLUSION OF THE ARTIST. BY DANIEL HERNANDEZ.]