Francisco Bulnes and Luis Gonzalez Obrz gen are both historical investigators of note and brilliancy. Bulnes is oratorical, passionate, picturesque, vivid. Obregon is cool, collected and severely impartial. He lacks the warmth of imagination of Butnes and the passion which produces highly-colored pictures; but he sees clearly and illuminatingly into the past and lays it before us in all its nakedness. His pub lished works make a long list, the best known of which is
The Ishmael of Mexican literature is An tonio Plaza. He has been damned by the edu cated as vulgar and unchaste; the Church has accused him of paganism and blasphemy and the critics have taken delight in stabbing him; yet, next to Jukn de Dios Peza, he has long been the most popular poet of the Mexican middle class. Plaza is a soul in revolt against the world as he found it, He has a wonderful power of invective and the language to fittingly express it; and yet, at times, he reveals a ten derness through which shows the tortured soul behind all his railings.
Among the talented women writers of Mex ico are Heraclia Badillio Dolores Guerrero, Teresa Vera and Josefina Letechipia, who have covered practically the whole field of Mexican literature Historical investigation has always at tracted Mexican literary men. This is due to the romantic interest of the country and its great wealth of material relating to the native races, to the Conquest and to the period of Spanish occupation immediately following. The most noted historical writers of the 17th cen tury are Francisco de Burgoa, 'Account of the Dominicans) (1597); Alonzo Franco y Ortega, Fernando de Alva Ixtlixochitl, Augustin de Vetancurt, (Teatro Mexicano' ; Antonio Tello, 'History of New Galicia' (1650); Antonio de Solis (1610-86), 'History of Mexico); and J. Villagutierrez Soto-Mayor, 'History of the Conquest of the Maras.) The historians of the 18th century have left more pretentious, better arranged and more philosophical histories and pictures of Mexican life than their predecessors. Of these histo
rians the most trustworthy are Francisco Javier Alegre (1729-88), 'History of the Jesuits in New Spain); Lorenzo Boturini Benaducci (1702-50), Andres Cavo, 'Spanish Government in Mexico' (1766); Francisco Saverio Clavijero (1731-87), 'An cient History of Mexico); Granado y Galvez, 'Indian History); Antonio Lorenzana, 'His tory of New Spain' (1770); Jose Beristain (1756-1817), 'Biographies' and Mariano Vey tia (1718-79), 'Ancient History of The 19th and 20th centuries of Mexican his torians include Lucas Alaman, Marco Aroniz, Carlos M. de Bustamante (1774-1848), An tonio Garcia Cubas (1832-96), Luis Gonzalez Obregon, Ignacio M. Altamirano, Diego de Landa, Nicolas Le6n, Joaquin Garcia Icazhal ceta, Manuel Orozco y Berra (1816-81), Carlos Percyra, Anselmo de la Portilla (1816-79), Pantaleen Tovar, Eufemio Mendoza, Eduardo Gallo, Jose Maria Vigil, Augustin Rivera (1824—), Manuel Rivera Cambas, Francisco Sosa (1848—), Justo Sierra, Niceto de Zama mous, Manuel Payno (1810-94)% Genaro Garcia, Victorio Salado Alvarez, Edurado Ruiz, Man uel Santibanez, Jose Maria Iglesias, Fernando Iglesias Calderon, Vicente Garcia Torres, An tonio de Leon y Gama, Manuel Revilla and Jose Victor Martinez (1810-61).
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