Excerpt from The Life of Cervantes But while the career of Cervantes forms as eventful and varied a history as that of the Knight-errant of La Mancha himself - Don Quikote might even be read as the sequel of its author's life - the number of biographies of the Spanish writer in the English tongue is curiously limited. It is ten years since Mr. Henry Edward Watts whose recent demise will be regretted by all Cervantists in this country - issued his new and revised edition of the Life and Works of Cervantes, and the scholarly and deeply-interesting Life by Mr. James fitzmaurice-kelly, Cervantes' most brilliant and discriminating biographer, is already a rare and almost unobtainable work. Several hundred works of biography, commentary, and criticism of Cervantes' life and writings have been published in various languages, yet I am not without born that this modest contribution may find an unoccupied niche in the broad gallery of Cervantist literature. I have no new data to offer, but I have put forward my conclusions, where they traverse the judgment of other authors, with all reserve; and on points of fact I have accepted the verdict of the majority of my authorities. Wherever I have quoted, and I have had much resource to Mr. F itzmaurice-kelly and others, I have acknow ledged my indebtedness; and I have endeavoured to keep always in view my object to present a concise, accurate, and readable life of Cervantes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.