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Meanwhile "Don Quixote" had been growing in favour, and its author's name

was non beyond the Pyrenees In 1607 an edition was printed at

Brussels Robles, the Madrid publisher, found it necessary to meet the

demand by a third edition, the seventh in all, in 1608 The popularity of

the book in Italy was such that a Milan bookseller was led to bring out

an edition in 1610; and another was called for in Brussels in 1611 It

ht naturally have been expected that, with such proofs before him that

he had hit the taste of the public, Cervantes would have at once set

about redeeue pro was farther frohts He had

still by hie as those he had

inserted in "Don Quixote" and instead of continuing the adventures of Don

Quixote, he set to work to write more of these "Novelas Exe a book of them

The novels were published in the summer of 1613, with a dedication to the

Conde de Lemos, the Maecenas of the day, and with one of those chatty

confidential prefaces Cervantes was so fond of In this, eight years and

a half after the First Part of "Don Quixote" had appeared, we get the