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Show The Author of "Maria." ;T"rRe Isaacs, the author of "Maria," is mixed race the son of an English "w warned to a woman of Spanish 1 nod. He was born at Cali, in the beau-1 beau-1 vale of Canca, where he has laid the "ne of his story. Early in life he lost s father and "mother "by death, and ;r- then has found a home in Bogota, e Colombian capital. His first work, snail volume of verses, wis enthusr-' enthusr-' "y received by the Bogotans, and 1 m:, when still a voung man, he pnb-sd pnb-sd "Maria," which has come to be Jisdered in South America as the most 'pnal and characteristic work yet pro-' pro-' J in Spanish-American literature. J;irJr's Weekly. |