Rui - the vibrant speaker and elegant writer - never will be forgotten by those who appreciate the resplendores the English
language. And here it is with wonderful nuance of his talent and the greatness which accompanied its porfiosa life. ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND HIS WORK Luis VIANA, member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, author of numerous works and one of the greatest admirers of Rui, prepared with great care this seleão that must appear in all libraries in the country and be adopted by colleges, especially at a time when the authorities try to do everything the best level of education by learning from our
language. Magnificent excerpts from various genres can show the reader the glorious diversity of the artist in his works. Not sóa beauty of the images, the trappings of the style, retumbância of oratória, that the reader feel to contemplate the pages of this
anthology, but also, above all these nuances of language, the deep thoughts of a patriot, the high feeling a politician, what drew the land of their struggles for greatness of the nation and eyes turned to the youth of his country. It is what makes Luis Viana highlight in his preface: "But on the more we encantem and seduzam the beauties of the way, let us not forget that what gives life to the pages of the Anthology is the sincerity, often the bravery with which they were written or handed, and that, without doubt, were the very reason for their existence. Rui Because, as Vieira said of the Baptist, preached both the ears as the eyes, that is preached by example. " Notória was the career of Rui, pugnando in favour of the interests of senior Naão, representing it in ways splendid abroad, immortal Eagle in The Hague, the rutilante astro de Buenos Aires, where, as well stressed Edgard Pereira Batista, "his name reached heights planetary ", the defence of" basic rights of man, which are magnified and systematized the right of naões. " And further: "Rui, placing too high a perfeião, and knew that it is the enhancement and when essential. Call him from the literary jubilee was a challenge common sense and evidence, a restrião unacceptable to the its past and posião only that the unanimous consensus of the country elevara. It reacted.''And he was right. Rui Barbosa, glorified only as a man of letters! It would take off the history of Brazil the champion of abolitionism, the journalist incomparable, the manufacturer of the system, the professor of civic and herald of civilismo, the evangelist the duty of neutral. " This is the Rui who must submit to young people of each geraão, in word and in the grand gesture on the podium and in the example. But such was the majesty that spread and celebrity that surrounded the literary life, which meant other operaões are put on the sidelines when it exalted the style and eloqência. "Really, either as speaker or as writer" - says Luis Viana - "Rui is those for which the language has not ¬ gredos. Fere all keys, and each of them has the note itself. Nobody, he know the extent and tone peculiar to each gallery - a forum of the parliament, the rallies, or to the academies - the same way that the writer, or to compose simple, newspaper articles made to live one day, but that just eternal, or to deduce the reasons for the lawyer or fix the thought of the statesman, takes the written word all the beauty, all the harmonies that is possible. Well it is severe, sometimes gentle, sometimes ironic, sometimes sarcastic. And it is always perfect. Acusaram - no, prolixo. But that is unfair, it may well evaluate who is forced to mutila it - as is the case with anthologies - and each step does not know how to do it without sacrificing the beauty of the monolith in which est.