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All English translations in this issue are by the editor. The original Portuguese comes from Project Gutenberg, and the standard disclaimer applies.
Prose
Voyage to India by Vincente Barbosa
“promising the Captain to leave on the first favorable wind”
Voyage to the North of Brazil by Ivo d’Evreux
“a passionate love for certain old books”
Singularities of a Country Girl by Eça de Queiroz
“I started, elegiacally, ridiculously, to consider the barrenness of life”
Poetry
Shakespeare by Machado de Assis
“And it returns to lost delight”
The Light of Philosophy by Angelina Vidal
“Of unstoppable revolt!”