A Critical Appraisal of the Contemporary Spanish-American Novel

A hundred and twenty-five years ago Andr6s Bello, then living in London, wrote his famous Silvas americanas, in which he urged culture to leave the decaying Old World and come to the New where the horizon was unlimited and the air fresh and pure.* He extolled the simple country life close to the fruitful American earth and praised Liberty, which all men have struggled to achieve. His ideas embrace the first suggestion of an independent American literary creed and of the intangible but basic spirit of americanismo which has become so es

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