An Interesting Personality The sentence of sixteen years' imprisonment passed on Don Miguel de Unamuno, formerly Rector and still Professor of Salamance University, for having attacked King Alfonso in some newspaper articles is still the subject of much discussion and most ¥arious comments, a Spanish correspondent writes to the "Morning Post.' Not that anyone supposes that Senor Unamuno opend even sixteen days in prison Three years ago, at the time of the revolutionary troubles, Senor Unamuno was supposed to be implicated and indeed was marked out by the ignorant to be President of the Spanish Republic. If one inquired for him at Salamanca one would be directed to the prison, only to find him living wietly in his own house. Senor mamuno is a Basque, although he is too good a Greek" scholar to need to have recourse to the subterfuge of one of his predeces-sory in the Chair of Greek at Salamanca four centuries ago, who, in his total ignorance of Greek, used the Basque language og a substitute, Don Miguel, who is nearly sixty, is full of youth and energy. He ig one of the most active men in Spain and hag an untiring curiosity as regards the literature of many lands and the geography of the remotest districts of the Peninsula. If you wish to visit that strange, unknown region of the Hurdes it is Don Miguel who will tell you the best way of doing so, and few modes of travelling in Spain, and they are many, are unknown to him. He is the author of essays, regional and fantastic, books of poetry and philosophy, His works number over 20 and' are great stimulators of thought, and his influence upon the younger generation in Spain hag been considerable.
He has a Basque directness, delights in paradoxes, and places sincerity above convention, 50 that he continually sets on edge the teeth of many good people. He may be said to live and thrive by opposition, opposition to his own self or to others, so that for this reason or from love of paradox he seems to have a secret wish to attack what he most admires, and, moreover, he would hold it a kind of cowardice not to translate his wish into action. It is this impulsiveness, his subtle humour, and his restless spirit of inquiry that give an unfailing life and interest to his writings, To be the subject of the admiration of many, including perhaps Senor Unamuno himself, ig to challenge his spirit
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