Note 690 — VI 1816-1910

Pathology, religious and social, crops up in the later novels of Snr. Vieira da Costa, Irmã Celeste (1904), A Familia Maldonado (1908); yet his earlier work, Entre Montanhas (1903), a story of contemporary life in the high-lying vine-lands of Douro written in 1899, was more original. The modern Portuguese novelists are nearly, although not quite, as numerous as the poets. José de Caldas is the author of Os Humildes (1900) and Cartas de um Vencido (1910), D. João de Castro of Os Malditos (1894) and A Deshonra, in which a strange situation is too long drawn out.