Demeter Bolintineano, a Roumanian poet, born at Bolintina, near Bucharest, in 1826. He early entered the public service, and soon afterward published in the newspapers of Bucharest several poems and articles which offended the government and caused him to lose his official position. The party of opposition, however, saw a valuable adherent in Bolintineano, and furnished him the means of studying in Paris, whither he went in 1847. In 1848, on the outbreak of the Wallachian revolution, he returned, and edited the Populul suveranu, the organ of the democratic party. On the downfall of the revolutionary government he again went to Paris, and afterward to Turkey. Under the government of Prince Cuza, he found himself again at liberty to return to Bucharest, where he once more took an active part in political affairs through the journal Dimbovitia. After Prince Cuza's coup d'etat (1864), Bolin-tineano received a place in the cabinet, but preferred to exchange it for the office of councillor of state. His principal poetical works, collected and published in 1852, consist of lyrics and ballads on themes connected with his country (French translation by himself, Brises d'Orient, 1866). He has also published a romance entitled Manilu, which has attained much celebrity, and other prose works.