Dona Perecta

The very acute and lively Spanish critic who signs himself Clarin, and is known personally as Don Leopoldo Alas, says the present Spanish has no yesterday, but only a day-before-yesterday. It does not derive from the romantic which immediately preceded that: the large or little, as it was with Cervantes, Hurtado de Mendoza, Quevedo, and the masters of picaresque fiction...