LITERARY SOUTH AMERICA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 51, 31 October 1913, Page 4

LITERARY SOUTH AMERICA.

Not the least of the results growing out of the opening of the Panama Canal will be the literary discovery of South America. Commerce hasj over paved the way of letters, and it is inevitable that the approaching union of the two oceans, with its consequent stimulus to trade and inteinational comity, should be reflected in the emergence of new continents in literature. Of course, South America lias occupied anything but a negligible place in our. literature before this. Prescott and Bancroft, among historians-. Humboldt, Bates, and \\ allace, among scientists; Smollett and Kingsley, among writers of fiction, have contributed books on Latin America of lasting excellence. But, outside their classic volumes, little else of real and enduring worth has been written on the subject, says the New York Times.