Readings from Modern Mexican Authors
Various Authors
9781465648228
208 pages
Library of Alexandria
Overview
Eduardo Noriega was born in the city of Mexico on October 4, 1853. He came of a notable family of Liberals, his father being General Domingo Noriega, and his brother Carlos, being, at the time of his death, adjutant-colonel to President Juarez. Eduardo was educated in the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria(National Preparatory School), where he spent five years and received his bachelor’s degree. Since that time he has dedicated himself to literary work and to teaching. He has written both prose and poetry. Besides two volumes of verse, he has printed a number of monologues—among them Primeros nubes (First clouds), El mejor Diamante (The better diamond) and La hija de la caridad (The daughter of charity). He has translated dramatic writings and has himself written two plays. From the age of forty years he has confined his teaching and writing to scientific subjects. He holds the chair of History and Geography in the Escuela de Comercio y Administracion (School of Commerce and Administration). He is author of a Geografía general (General geography), which has gone through two editions, of a capital Geografía de Mexico, and of a handy Atlas de Mexico miniatura(Miniature atlas of Mexico) which is in its third edition. Eduardo Noriega is a directing member of the Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadistica(Mexican Society of Geography and Statistics) and many valuable papers read by him before that body are printed in its Bulletin. Our selections are taken from his Geografía de Mexico. A school text-book of geography is hardly a promising place in which to seek examples of literary value, but in his descriptions Noriega often shows facility in expression and felicity in statement.
