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JOSE MARIA DE PEREDA (1833—1906)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 138 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PEREDA (1833—1906)  , one of the most and Muergo in Sotileza, Pedro Juan and Pilara in La Puchera; distinguished of See also:modern See also:Spanish novelists, was See also:born at Polanco and he personified the tumult and See also:calm of the See also:sea with more near See also:Santander on the 6th of See also:February 1833 . He was educated See also:power than See also:Victor See also:Hugo displayed in See also:Les Travailleurs de la at the Instituto Cantabro of Santander, whence he went in mer . His descriptive See also:powers were of the highest See also:order, and 1852 to See also:Madrid, where he studied with the vague purpose of his See also:style, pure of all affectations and embellishments, is of singular entering the See also:artillery See also:corps . Abandoning this See also:design after force and suppleness . With all his limitations, he was as three years' trial, he returned See also:home and began his See also:literary career See also:original a See also:genius as See also:Spain produced during the 19th See also:century . by contributing articles to a See also:local See also:journal, La Abeja montanesa (J . F: K.) in 1858 . He also wrote much in a weekly See also:paper, El Tio Cayetan, PERE See also:DAVID'S See also:DEER, the mi-See also:lou of the See also:Chinese, an aberrant and in 1864 he collected his powerful realistic sketches of local See also:life and strangely See also:mule-like deer (q.v.), the first See also:evidence of whose and See also:manners under the See also:title of Escenas montanesas . See also:Pereda existence was made known in See also:Europe by the See also:Abbe (then Pere) fought against the revolution of 1868 in El Tio Cayetan, See also:writing David, who in 1865 obtained the skin of a specimen from the the newspaper almost single-handed . In 1871 he was elected as See also:herd kept at that See also:time in the imperial See also:park at See also:Pekin . This the Carlist See also:deputy for Cabuerniga . In this same See also:year he pub- skin, with the See also:skull and antlers, was sent to See also:Paris, where it was lished a second See also:series of Escenas montanesas under the title of described in 1866 by See also:Professor Milne-See also:Edwards .

In lacking a brow-Tipos y paisajes; and in 1876 appeared Bocetos al See also:

temple, three tales, in one of which the author describes his disenchanting See also:political experiences . The Tipos trashumantes belongs to the year 1877, as does El Buey suelto, which was intended as a reply tine, and dividing in a See also:regular See also:fork-like manner some distance above the See also:burr, the large and cylindrical antlers of this See also:species conform to the See also:general structural type characteristic of the See also:American deer . The front prong of the See also:main fork, however, curves somewhat torward and again divides at least once; while the See also:hind prong is of See also:great length undivided, and directed back-wards in a manner found in no other deer . As regards general See also:form, the most distinctive feature is the great relative length of the tail, which reaches the hocks, and is donkey-like rather than deer-like in form . The See also:head is See also:long and narrow, with a prominent See also:ridge for the support of the antlers, moderate-sized ears, and a narrow and pointed muzzle . A gland and tuft are See also:present on the skin of the See also:outer See also:side of the upper See also:part of the hind See also:cannon-See also:bone; but, unlike American deer, there is no gland on the inner side of the hock . Another feature by which this species differs from the American deer is the conformation of the bones of the See also:lower part of the fore.-See also:leg, which have the same structure as in the red deer See also:group . The coat is of moderate length, but the See also:hair on the See also:neck and See also:throat of -the old stags is elongated to form a mane and fringe . Although new-born fawns are spotted, the adults are in the main uniformly coloured; the general tint of the coat at all seasons being reddish tawny with a more or less marked tendency to See also:grey: It has been noticed at See also:Woburn See also:Abbey that the antlers are See also:shed and replaced twice a year . The true home of this (See also:leer has never been ascertained, and probably never will be; all the few known specimens now living being kept in confinement—the great See also:majority in the See also:duke of See also:Bedford's park at Woburn, See also:Bedfordshire . (R .

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