El Palacio, Vol. 24

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Excerpt from El Palacio, Vol. 24: March 3, 1928To hear this archaic old Spanish, with its air of a romantic century about it, brings a realization of the fact that these early actors on the American scene be longed to an age of adventure and chivalry that we do not usually think of as related to American history. That they were fired with that' same adventurous, chimerical spirit of their times that provoked Cervantes to his immortal satire - that they were, in all reality, prototypes of Don Quixote - is evident. Nothing short of that worthy knight's cavalier disregard for the im mense odds against them, and his fertile imagination that could always soar above realities and create entie ing illusions further on, could have brought them at that early date this long way into the heart of a wild erness that even in our century was considered formid able.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.