Note B — Front matter
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Don Mariano José de Larra, born in 1809. His father was a medical officer in the French army (then stationed in Spain) of Joseph Bonaparte, whom he followed to France after the defeat of the French. Larra returned to Spain at the age of eight. Read law at Valladolid, but did not complete the prescribed course. Removed to Madrid, and engaged in journalism. Killed himself February 13, 1837, in his twenty-eighth year. Works: Essays on manners, critical reviews, several unimportant plays, and a novel,—El doncel de D. Enrique el Doliente (1834).