Being in Lisbon in October last, I sauntered one evening into the Livraria Bertrand, a recognised meeting-place of men of letters in the Chiado, still the principal street of the Capital, and now known officially as the Rua Garrett, though, in practice, the greater poet has not displaced the lesser. There I found Senhor Francisco Ramos Paz, proprietor of the _Gazeta de Noticias_ of Rio de Janeiro, and our conversation turned on Eça de Queiroz. I happened to say that I had recently published an English version of the _Suave Milagre_ and had one of the _Defunto_ ready for the press, whereupon Senhor Ramos Paz told me that the original MS. of the latter story belonged to him, it having been wri…
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