Note F — Front matter
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Don Juan Valera y Alcalá Galiano, born in 1827 near Cordova, of illustrious family. Studied law at Málaga and Granada. Entered diplomacy, and was minister at Washington, Vienna, and elsewhere. Died in 1905. Works: Pepita Jiménez (1874), Las ilusiones del doctor Faustino (1875), El comendador Mendoza (1877), Doña Luz (1879), and many volumes of tales and of literary criticism.