:MARCELI NO ( 1856— ). A Spanish man of letters, horn in the District of Santander, :`.:"ovember 3, 18511; he studied there and at the universities of Barcelona and Madrid. Mien lint twenty-two years old he was appointed to a chair of philosophy and letters in the University of Madrid, and at the age of twenty-five he was admitted into the Spanish Academy. Ile Min his chair at the university after more than twenty years• service to beeome director of the Biblioteca Nacional. y Pelayo is a humanist in letters and one of the most capable critics that Europe has produced in modern times. II is works are as remarkable for their finish of form as they are for solidity of content. and give ample proof of the author', patriotism and respect for the institutions and traditions of his ColIntry. y Pelayo's literary activity began with the Est ndios Trifler's sobrc esrritorrs omit tit iirses (Santander, 1870/.
and the treatise. Horocio en Espana (2d ed. Madrid, 18851. The volume Co/derOn 1/ Sll (Madrid, 1841) contains lectures delivered upon the occasion of the centenary of the great dram atist. Various essays that had done duty as prefaces to books or as critiques were gathered together into the volume entitled Estudios de critic(' li ernrin (Madrid. 188-1). Religions dis cessions play no small part in the noteworthy flistoria de Jos hetet-0'10.ms esponioles SI 1, and his restlictieally critical temperament is nowhere better than in the series of volumes constituting the Historia de /as iticaq cs(Oicas rn /sjt:Oa Tlis verse, which is graceful, also well the erudition of the man. as may be seen in the collection (this, cpfsiolas p trafp.dias (I88:1).