Few pioneers have experienced more of the ups and downs
f fortune, the alternate favour and ingratitude of their contemporaries, than did Bolivar, the founder of Bolivia and
liberator of Venezuela, Columbia, Chili, Peru, and other South American States from the rule of Spain. After fourteen years of guerrilla warfare, carried on against all conceivable odds, Bolivar died in 1830 in tragic circumstances, with his life's work apparently [frustrated. But the name of this far- sighted statesman as wellfas gallant soldier lives to-day in that of &Republic and a host of towns and villages; while the fact that his portrait appears upon the stamps of several countries testifies to his enduring influence. Translated from the French, Bolivar, el Liberador, by Maurice Vaucaire (Constable, 7s. 6d.), succinctly and picturesquely describes his romantic career, and incidentally corrects some popular misconceptions with regard to South Atherican emancipation. -
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