CERVANTES SAAVEDRA. 441 CERVANTES SAAVEDRA. fliaraitor was riiiciiinj; and llic fouiulalion iieiiig laid for that wide understaiuling of liiiman iiatuit- wliieli makes; liis groat work a doliglit to all peoples and at all times. It was this ordeal which waked the soldier, the "mutilated of Le- panto.' from his dream of ronumcc, and pre- pared him for transition into the writer eapahle of the higher and finer linmanity of the Don Quij-otc. The plays wliieh he is said to have written in captivity are lost. The earliest known literary efforts after his return to Spain are some sonnets published in 15S3, the year be- fore his marriage to Catalina do I'alacios 8ala- zar, a young lady of goo<l family from Esquivias, in Xew Castile. Little is known of the marriage beyond the fact that she bore him no children, and that she outlived him by ten years. It is said, howexer, that while courting licr he foimd inspiration to write his pastoral novel, the (lata- tea, publislicd in 1585. Extravagant, artificial, and afTected. like others of its type, it never- theless served to bring Cervantes into notice; and, althimgh never finished, seems to have been regarded by him to the last with especial fond- ness, for in Do)i Quixote he makes the Barber -say: "This book has .some invention; it pro- poses something and concludes nothing; it be- hooves us to «ait for tlie second part which he promises." To this and the following years be- long a long line of dramas — twenty or thirty according to liis own account. Of most of these even the titles hae perished. We know of the f/raii Turquema : the Jcnisalrn : the Batulla iinial; the .Imaranta : the Bosque amorosa ; the Arsinda, and the Coiifusa, which the author flattered himself was "good among the best of the comedies of the cloak and sword." The two .surviving plays are Kl trato de Argcl (Life in Algiers) and Lt novel. I'lrsilo; l^igimnunda, whjeh was published posthumously. Of the many editions of Don Quixote, the fol- lowing may be mentioned: The first edition ^Madrid. 1605; second part. 1615) ; that by Pellicer CMadrid. 1797-98) ; that of Diego Cle- mencia (Madrid. 18.'?3-39). containing an excel- lent commentary; a photographic reproduction of the first edition (Barcelona, 1871-74); and a recent critical text, edited by Fitzmaurice- Kelly, in course of publication (London. 1S89 et seq.), Cervantes, Ohms Completas (in 12 vols.), appeared in 18G3-64. The earliest Eng- lish version is that of Sheldon (London, 1612- 20; Iate.st reprint, by Henley, 1896). Later renderings deserving mention are: Ormsby's (London, 1885), Dulfield's (London, 1881"), Watts's (London, 1894). The latter contains a lengthy biography. Mr. Watts has also contrib- uted a .short "Life of Cervantes" to the Great M'ritrrs Series, which includes a brief but con- venient bibliography. .Vmong the various other accounts of his life and works are: Xavarrctc, Vida de Miguel Cer-
