Ariel - Classic Reprint Author:Jose Enrique Rodo JOSE ENRIQUE RonD Prefatory Essay ONE day last year, some three years after his death at Palermo alone and in distress, a Uruguayan ship of var brought home, to his native city of Montevideo, Rodo's body-to be buried beneath the great monument his nation is no' v to dedicate to him. '[he day vas made a national holiday, and all Latin America, in... more » sympathy, took part. Although perhaps the greatest of modern American idealists, and the London Times, the Boston Transcript, the Nev York Prensa, devoted pages to his memory, he is still little knovn in North America. "AIUF..L," perhaps his greatest vork, has much to say of us; it is charged vith a· spirit that in these post-var days ,ve have largely lost; it brings the best thought of that older, Latin, Roman culture of lmer
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