[M] Don Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, born in 1867 at Valencia, of poor parents. Read law. Was expelled from Spain, and after his return was imprisoned, on account of the writings of his early youth. Was a republican deputy from Valencia to the Cortes. Works: Cuentos valencianos, 2 vols., La barraca, Flor de mayo, La catedral, El intruso, La bodega, La horda, La maja desnuda, Sangre y arena, et al. See An Apostle of New Spain, by Dr. R. H. Keniston, in The Nation of December 24, 1908.
[N] Don Ricardo Fernández Guardia, born at Alajuela, Costa Rica, January 4, 1867. Now minister of foreign affairs (ministro de relaciones exteriores) in the republic of Costa Rica. Works: Hojarasca, Cuentos ticos ("tico" is used in Central America in speaking of an inhabitant of Costa Rica), Magdalena, El descubrimiento y la conquista de Costa Rica, Cartilla histórica de Costa Rica.
[O] Don Joaquín Díaz Garcés, born at Santiago, Chile, in 1878: writes over the pen-name Ánjel Pino. He has been a journalist, and writer of essays and short stories of manners. He is now secretary of the Chilean legation at Rome, Italy.
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