Note 9 — Chapter II · THE SPANISH LEARNED POETS.

This seems the most convenient place to note that fairly ample specimens of Spanish literature will be found in the very useful collection known as the Biblioteca de Aribau, or de Ribadeneyra—seventy-one somewhat ponderous volumes printed with middling skill on poor paper. The texts are the best where few are really good, and the introductions of value. It is well indexed. I prefer to make my references to this rather than to earlier editions or better editions published by societies, and therefore not easily accessible in this country.