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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. University of Pennsylvania Pressis collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Hispanic Review. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 128.235.251.160 on Sat, 3 Jan 2015 02:02:25 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Reviews HR, XXVIII (1960)now in a better position to arrive at the author's own words than were the scholars of the past. The archetype of the Memorial, printed on pages 45-79, is certainly a more self-consistent poem than are any of the 28 versions derived from it. Mr. Crosby assumes, probably rightly, that the author of the Memorial did not alter or correct his work after he launched it. (This assumption will not always be valid in other cases, and we know that the second version of a work of literature is not always an improvement on the first.) The corruptions, unfounded emendations and interpolations are cleared away, errors traced to their sources, and finally five reliable texts emerge which, by a careful scrutiny, yield the archetype. To describe fully the methods used would mean rewriting half of the book. I will merely say that the author proves satisfactorily that the additions, however eloquent or violent they may be, interrupt the progress of the original, disturb its argumentation and reduce its final effectiveness. They remain interesting only as records of the malice, hatred and uncharitableness of a number of unknown bitter men and of what they chose to attack. The Memorial then emerges as a more reasoned exposure of poverty, distress and inefficiency than had previously been apparent. The personal attacks on Olivares and on his associates distract; they do not intensify.A few details need correction. It seems wanton to call a printed text a manuscript "for the sake of brevity of terminology." The description of the printed pliego suelto "T" on pages 3 and 45 is inadequate, and we are never told where we can find it. I was also surprised that so severe a scholar as Mr. Crosby should base his adverse judgment on the palace of the Buen Retiro on the journalistic and prejudiced writings of Jos6 Deleito y Pifiuela (p. 20). These are small defects compared with the real merit of the rest of the book.To sum up: the main importance of this work lies in its demonstration of how a comparative technique can enable an intelligent and sensitive scholar to reconstruct an original from many varying derivatives. The investigation itself contributes some valuable side-lights on the circumstances of Spanish political verse-satire in the early sixteen forties. The question of Quevedo's authorship remains, however, unanswered.
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