Electra

———— In 1872 his next book, El Audaz, was completed. Then taking as a model the historical novels of Erckmann-Chatrian, he began his Episodios Nacionales, which alone fill twenty volumes. Add to this number some thirty volumes of Novelas Contemporáneas, and one sees the monument that Galdós offers us of the wonderful persistence and fertility of his talent. It is upon the Novelas that his wider literary reputation rests, for in the narration of contemporary Spanish life, in the reflection of the ideas and the sentiments of the people, he has no rival. This drama was represented at Madrid, January 30, 1901, and made a deep impression on the Spanish people. "At the end of the first act," says the Imparcial, "the applause was frantic