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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 77738 ***
+
+
+
+
+                     A BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS IN
+                      ENGLISH, SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE
+                    RELATING TO THE REPUBLICS COMMONLY
+                           CALLED LATIN AMERICAN
+                               WITH COMMENTS
+
+                              [Illustration]
+
+                           THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
+                   NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS
+                          ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO
+
+                         MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED
+                        LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
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+
+                     THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.
+                                  TORONTO
+
+
+
+
+                           A BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY
+
+                     OF BOOKS IN ENGLISH, SPANISH AND
+                        PORTUGUESE, RELATING TO THE
+                         REPUBLICS COMMONLY CALLED
+                              LATIN AMERICAN
+                               WITH COMMENTS
+
+                                    BY
+                            PETER H. GOLDSMITH
+                 DIRECTOR OF THE PAN AMERICAN DIVISION OF
+                THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR INTERNATIONAL
+                               CONCILIATION
+
+                                 New York
+                           THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
+                                   1915
+
+                           _All rights reserved_
+
+                              COPYRIGHT, 1915
+                           BY PETER H. GOLDSMITH
+
+            Set up and electrotyped. Published December, 1915.
+
+                               Norwood Press
+                   J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
+                          Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE
+
+
+Several lists of books relating to the southern countries of the Western
+Hemisphere have been published; but as they contain the titles of works
+of unequal value, and at the same time are entirely wanting in critical
+comment, they have failed to supply the urgent demand that exists for
+guidance in buying and reading. To meet this want the present little
+book, which disclaims all pretense to completeness in the bibliographical
+sense, was hastily compiled. Amid the pressure of work the compiler found
+it necessary to confine himself to listing only such books as could be
+readily come at in the libraries of the city of New York.
+
+The method pursued in making up the list was as follows: first, to
+introduce the titles of widely heralded works, without regard to their
+merit, in order to discriminate between them; and, second, to bring
+forward less well known publications so as to draw attention to their
+excellencies. To have listed only such as could be commended would
+have failed to furnish that perspective which is essential to giving
+prominence to works of real merit.
+
+If it should occur to any that some of the comments are slightly
+censorious, what follows is offered as an explanation and an excuse.
+
+Human beings are prone to wander over the earth, and to print accounts
+of their feelings and thoughts regarding the lands they visit, and some
+even write books about countries they have never seen. If the only
+denizens of alien lands were beasts, birds and insects, writing books
+concerning them would involve little social responsibility. However, most
+of the lands now known to tourists, reporters, historians, scientists,
+sociologists, reformers and other travelers are inhabited by beings not
+remarkably unlike those who come to investigate them, particularly in
+pride and sensitiveness and a certain preference for their own point of
+view and manner of living and thinking. Moreover, the dwellers in these
+alien lands commonly have commercial, social and intellectual relations
+with the peoples represented by the visitors, and their attitude toward
+them is to a considerable degree determined by what the latter publish
+regarding the countries they visit.
+
+In view of all this, it is impossible to overemphasize the seriousness of
+the responsibility that rests upon those who represent their country in
+other lands, or who give publicity to their thoughts concerning them. The
+obligation to consider the serious influence of books upon international
+relations seems not to have been generally recognized, however, else many
+of those who have betaken themselves to authorship would either have
+written differently or refrained altogether from writing. Yet authors
+will not be denied; even publishers are unwary; and the general public
+has not ceased to be gullible. As a result of this failure to recognize
+responsibility, a vast quantity of blunderingly conceived, hastily
+composed and faultily written literature regarding foreign nations has
+been turned out by inexperienced, ill informed and strongly biased
+writers of all the more important countries.
+
+The Code provides no penalty for a general ignorance of history, a
+slovenly style, national prejudice, intellectual provincialism, a lack
+of insight, and bad taste. As a result the Philistines roam the world
+unhindered, and criticism is the sole weapon with which to keep them
+in discipline. Until writers realize that only what is just and true
+in matter, and what is finished in form is worthy to be published,
+such unsparing criticism as that which characterizes this work must be
+continued.
+
+A few words are necessary as to details. It will be observed that the
+spelling, and the style, to use this word in the sense in which printers
+employ it, are not uniform, that the names of countries and cities
+vary in the different titles and in the comments. This was inevitable.
+The orthography and style of the titles are different in the works
+from which they were taken. In scrupulously reproducing them it was
+necessary to admit many inconsistencies. The compiler is responsible for
+the orthography of the comments only, and in them he exhibits what he
+considers the correct form of the place names introduced.
+
+
+
+
+INDEX BY COUNTRIES AND SUBJECTS
+
+
+ARGENTINA:
+
+    Andes, El problema de los: Barra. 8.
+
+    Amazing Argentine, The: Fraser. 39.
+
+Argentine: Hirst. 49.
+
+    Argentine and her people of to-day: Winter. 104.
+
+    Argentine in the twentieth century, The: Martínez and
+    Lewandowski. 68.
+
+    Argentine Plains and Andine glaciers: Larden. 56.
+
+    Argentine Republic, Baedeker of the: Martínez. 67.
+
+Argentine republic, The: General descriptive data. 4.
+
+    Argentine republic, The: Pennington. 77.
+
+    Argument for the Argentine republic upon the question with
+    Brazil in regard to the territory of Missions: Zeballos. 107.
+
+    Artigas, José: Acevedo. 1.
+
+    Bolivia y Argentina: René-Moreno. 82.
+
+    Buenos Aires desde su fundación hasta nuestros días: Bilbao. 12.
+
+    Buenos Aires, Tucumán y Paraguay, Ensayo de la historia civil
+    de: Funes. 39.
+
+    Climate of the Argentine republic: Davis. 29.
+
+    Conquest of the river Plate, The: Schmidt and Cabeza de Vaca.
+    88.
+
+    Descubrimiento y conquista de la Patagonia y de la Tierra del
+    Fuego, Estudio histórico sobre el: Morla Vicuña. 71.
+
+    Historia de Belgrano y de la independencia argentina: Mitre. 70.
+
+    Historia de la conquista del Paraguay, Río de la Plata y
+    Tucumán: Lozano. 61.
+
+    Modern Argentina: Koebel. 55.
+
+    Northern Patagonia, character and resources: Willis. 102.
+
+    Patagonia, Across: Dixie. 32.
+
+    Patagonia, The wilds of: Skottsberg. 90.
+
+    Política argentina respecto de Chile, La: Quesada. 81. Through
+    five republics of South America. A critical description of
+    Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela in 1905:
+    Martin. 67.
+
+BOLIVIA:
+
+    Andes, Across the: Post. 80.
+
+    Bolivia: Calderón, Ignacio. 21.
+
+    Bolivia: General descriptive data. 14.
+
+    Bolivian Andes, The: Conway. 26.
+
+    Bolivia y Argentina: René-Moreno. 82.
+
+    Bolivia y Perú: René-Moreno. 83.
+
+    Search for the apex of America, A: Peck. 76.
+
+    Titicaca and Koati, The island of: Bandelier. 7.
+
+    War of the Pacific coast of South America between Chile and the
+    allied republics of Perú and Bolivia, The: Mason. 68.
+
+BRAZIL:
+
+    Amazonas, Descubrimiento del río de las: Medina. 69.
+
+    Amazon, Exploration of the valley of the: Herndon and Gibbon.
+    48.
+
+    Andes, Across the: Post. 80.
+
+    Brazil and her people of to-day: Winter. 104.
+
+    Brazil and Perú boundary question: Moore. 71.
+
+    Brazil and the Brazilians: Bruce. 18.
+
+    Brazil, A year in: Dent. 31.
+
+    Brazil: Denis. 31.
+
+    Brazil, El, su vida, su trabajo, su futuro: Bernárdez. 11.
+
+    Brazil, Explorations of the highlands of the: Burton. 20.
+
+    Brazil, Forty years in: Bennett. 10.
+
+    Brazil: General descriptive data. 16.
+
+    Brazil, History of: Southey. 92.
+
+    Brazil in 1912: Oakenfull. 74.
+
+    Brazil, its resources and attractions, The new: Wright. 106.
+
+    Brazil, Pioneering in south: Bigg-Wither. 11.
+
+    Brazil, The United States of: Domville-Fife. 32.
+
+    Chile, Perú and Brazil, Narrative of services in the liberation
+    of: Cochrane. 26.
+
+    Descobrimento do Brazil: Fonseca. 38.
+
+    Geographia-atlas do Brazil e das cinco partes do mundo. 42.
+
+    Journey in Brazil, A: Agassiz. 3.
+
+    Journey in Brazil, Scientific results of a: Agassiz. 3.
+
+    List of books, magazine articles and maps relating to Brazil,
+    1800-1900, A: Phillips. 79.
+
+    Naval campaigns, Four modern: Clowes. 25.
+
+    North Brazil: Buley. 18.
+
+    Río de Janeiro, The beautiful: Bell, Alured Gray. 9.
+
+    South Brazil: Buley. 18.
+
+    Through five republics of South America, A critical description
+    of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and Venezuela in 1905:
+    Martin. 67.
+
+CENTRAL AMERICA, GENERAL:
+
+    Calendar of Central America and México, The native: Brinton. 17.
+
+    Central America and its problems: Palmer. 75.
+
+    Fair land of Central America, The: Waleffe. 99.
+
+    Guatemala and the states of Central America: Domville-Fife. 32.
+
+    Loltún, Yucatán, Cave of: Thompson, Edward H. 95.
+
+    Mexican and Central American hieroglyphic writing, On the
+    present state of our knowledge of the: Seler. 89.
+
+    México, Yucatán and Central America, Notes on the
+    semi-civilized nations of: Gallatin. 40.
+
+    Santa Lucía Cosumalwhuapa in Guatemala, The sculptures of:
+    Habel. 45.
+
+    South and Central America, The republics of: Enock. 37.
+
+CHILE:
+
+    Andes, El problema de los: Barra. 8.
+
+    Argument for the Argentine republic upon the question with
+    Brazil in regard to the territory of Missions: Zeballos. 107.
+
+    Chile: General descriptive data. 24.
+
+    Chile, its history and development: Elliot. 35.
+
+    Chile, Perú and Brazil, Narrative of services in the liberation
+    of: Cochrane. 26.
+
+    Guerra del Pacífico, Mediación de los Estados Unidos de Norte
+    América en la: Logan and Calderón. 60.
+
+    History of Chile, A: Hancock. 47.
+
+    Modern Chile: Koebel. 55.
+
+    Naval campaigns, Four modern: Clowes. 25.
+
+    Política argentina respecto de Chile, La: Quesada. 81.
+
+    Temperate Chile: Smith, A. Anderson. 91.
+
+    Through five republics of South America. A critical description
+    of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela in 1905:
+    Martin. 67.
+
+    Republic of Chile, The: Wright. 106.
+
+    War between Perú and Chile, The: Markham. 65.
+
+    War of the Pacific coast of South America between Chile and the
+    allied republic of Perú and Bolivia, The: Mason. 68.
+
+COLOMBIA:
+
+    Colombia: Eder. 37.
+
+    Colombia: General descriptive data. 26.
+
+    Colombia, Journal of a residence and of travels in: Cochrane.
+    25.
+
+    Colombian and Venezuelan republics, The: Scruggs. 89.
+
+    Costa Rica y costa de mosquitos: Peralta. 78.
+
+    New Granada, The conquest of: Markham. 64.
+
+    Republic of Colombia, The: Petre. 78.
+
+    Up the Orinoco and down the Magdalena: Mozans. 72.
+
+COSTA RICA:
+
+    Costa Rica: General descriptive data. 27.
+
+    Costa Rica, The republic of: Calvo. 22.
+
+    Costa Rica y costa de mosquitos: Peralta. 78.
+
+CUBA:
+
+    Cuba and her people of to-day: Lindsay. 59.
+
+    Cuba and the intervention: Robinson. 84.
+
+    Cuba: General descriptive data. 27.
+
+    Cuba y Puerto Rico: Dupierry. 33.
+
+    New born Cuba, The: Matthews. 69.
+
+    Santiago de Cuba, Combates y capitulación de: Müller y Tejeiro.
+    73.
+
+    Sexes produced by whites and colored peoples in Cuba, The
+    proportion of: Heape. 47.
+
+    Story of Cuba, The: Halstead. 47.
+
+DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:
+
+    Dominican republic: General descriptive data. 32.
+
+    Santo Domingo, past and present; with a glance at Hayti:
+    Hazard. 47.
+
+ECUADOR:
+
+    Atlas geográfico del Ecuador: López. 60.
+
+    Ecuador: General descriptive data. 34.
+
+    Ecuador, Guía comercial, agrícola e industrial de la república
+    del. 34.
+
+    Ecuador, its ancient and modern history: Enoch. 36.
+
+    Ecuador, Resumen de la historia del: Cevallos. 23.
+
+    Geografía y geología del Ecuador: Wolf. 105.
+
+GUATEMALA:
+
+    Guatemala and her people of to-day: Winter. 105.
+
+    Guatemala: General descriptive data. 44.
+
+    Santa Lucía Cosumalwhuapa in Guatemala, The sculptures of:
+    Habel. 45.
+
+HAITI:
+
+    Haití: General descriptive data. 46.
+
+    Haití, her history and her detractors: Léger. 58.
+
+    Hayti or the black republic: St. John. 87.
+
+    Santo Domingo, past and present; with a glance at Hayti:
+    Hazard. 47.
+
+HONDURAS:
+
+    Copán, Caverns of: Gordon. 44.
+
+    Copán, Prehistoric ruins of. 50.
+
+    Copán. The hieroglyphic stairway: Gordon. 44.
+
+    Explorations and adventures in Honduras: Wells. 101.
+
+    Honduras: General descriptive data. 50.
+
+    Honduras: Squier. 92.
+
+LATIN AMERICA, GENERAL:
+
+    American constitutions: Rodríguez. 84.
+
+    American Mediterranean, The: Bonsal. 14.
+
+    American policy: Bigelow. 11.
+
+    American supremacy: Crichfield. 27.
+
+    Beginnings of Spanish-American diplomacy, The: Robertson. 84.
+
+    Conquista española en América y en México, Carácter de la:
+    García, Genaro. 41.
+
+    Continente, La ceración de un: Calderón, F. García. 20.
+
+    Continent of opportunity, The: Clark, Francis E. 24.
+
+    Diplomatic relations of the United States and Spanish America,
+    The: Latané. 58.
+
+    Inquisition in the Spanish dependencies, The: Lea. 58.
+
+    Inter-American acquaintances: Chandler. 23.
+
+    Latin America: Brown. 17.
+
+    Latin America: its rise and progress: Calderón, F. García. 21.
+
+    Latin America of to-day: Barrett. 8.
+
+    Latin America: Shepherd. 90.
+
+    Modern Spanish lyrics: Hills and Morley. 49.
+
+    Monroe doctrine, an obsolete shibboleth, The: Bingham. 13.
+
+    Monroe doctrine, The: Edginton. 34.
+
+    Narrative and critical history of America: Winsor. 103.
+
+    Pan-Americanism: Usher. 97.
+
+    Poetas hispano-americanos, Antología de: Menéndez y Pelayo. 69.
+
+    Practical guide to Latin America: Hale. 46.
+
+    Spanish America, The capitals of: Curtis. 27.
+
+    Spanish and Portuguese South America during the colonial
+    period: Watson. 101.
+
+    Spanish conquest in America, The: Helps. 48.
+
+    Spanish occupancy of America, The gilded man and other pictures
+    of the: Bandelier. 7.
+
+    Two Americas, The: Reyes. 83.
+
+    West Indies and the Spanish main, The: Rodway. 85.
+
+MÉXICO:
+
+    Antiquities of México: Kingsborough. 52.
+
+    Archæological researches in Yucatán: Thompson, Edward H. 94.
+
+    Awakening of a nation, The: Lummis. 62.
+
+    Beyond the Mexican sierras: Wallace. 100.
+
+    Calendar of Central America and México, The native: Brinton. 17.
+
+    Carranza and México: Fornaro. 38.
+
+    Case of México and the policy of president Wilson, The: Zayas
+    Enríquez. 107.
+
+    Chultunes of Labná, Yucatán, The: Thompson, Edward H. 95.
+
+    Coming México, The: Goodrich. 43.
+
+    Destrucción de las Indias: Las Casas. 57.
+
+    Díaz, Porfirio: Godoy. 43.
+
+    Díaz, Porfirio: Zayas Enríquez. 107.
+
+    Discoveries in the Mexican and Maya codices: Thomas. 94.
+
+    Empire to republic, From: Noll. 73.
+
+    Hieroglyphic writing in México, Data about a new kind of: León.
+    58.
+
+    Historia antigua y de la conquista de México: Orozco y Berra.
+    74.
+
+    Historia de la conquista de México: Solís. 91.
+
+    Historia de México, Colección de documentos para la: García
+    Icazbalceta, Joaquín. 41.
+
+    Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España: Díaz del
+    Castillo. 31.
+
+    History of México: Bancroft. 6.
+
+    History of the conquest of México, A new: Wilson. 103.
+
+    History of the conquest of México: Prescott. 80.
+
+    Indian México, In: Starr. 93.
+
+    Insurgent México: Reed. 82.
+
+    Juárez, A life of Benito: Burke. 19.
+
+    Juárez, El verdadero: Bulnes. 19.
+
+    Juárez: García, Genaro. 41.
+
+    Junípero Serra. The man and his work: Fitch. 38.
+
+    Legends of the city of México: Janvier. 51.
+
+    Maximilian in México: Martin. 66.
+
+    Mayan hieroglyphics, A primer of: Brinton. 16.
+
+    Memorias de mis tiempos, 1828 a 1840: Prieto. 81.
+
+    Mexican and Central American hieroglyphic writing, On the
+    present state of our knowledge of the: Seler. 89.
+
+    Mexican highlands, On the: Edwards, William Seymour. 35.
+
+    Mexican people, The: Gutiérrez de Lara, and Pinchón. 45.
+
+    Mexican trails: Kirkham. 54.
+
+    México and her people of to-day: Winter. 105.
+
+    México and the United States: Romero. 82.
+
+    México durante su guerra con los Estados Unidos: Ramírez. 82.
+
+    México: Enock. 35.
+
+    México: General descriptive data. 70.
+
+    México, Modern: MacHugh. 63.
+
+    México of the twentieth century: Martin. 66.
+
+    México, the land of unrest: Baerlein. 5.
+
+    México, The political shame of: Bell, Edward I. 10.
+
+    México, the wonderland of the south: Carson. 23.
+
+    México, Yucatán and Central America, Notes on the
+    semi-civilized nations of: Gallatin. 40.
+
+    Mitla: Aymé. 5.
+
+    Nayarit, Sonora, Sinaloa y ambas Californias, Historia del:
+    Ortega. 74.
+
+    New Spain, Political essay on the kingdom of: Humboldt. 50.
+
+    New trials in México: Lumholtz. 61.
+
+    Obras: García Icazbalceta, Joaquín. 41.
+
+    Pacific states of North America, History of the: Bancroft. 6.
+    Real México, The: Fyfe. 39.
+
+    Recent Mexican study of the native languages of México: Starr.
+    93.
+
+    Rig Veda Americanus. Sacred songs of the ancient Mexicans, with
+    a gloss in Nahuatl: Brinton. 16.
+
+    Terry’s México. Handbook for travelers: Terry. 94.
+
+    Through southern México: Gadow. 40.
+
+    United States and México, The: Rives. 83.
+
+    Unknown México: Lumholtz. 61.
+
+    ¡Viva México!: Flandrau. 38.
+
+    Wanderings in México: Gillpatrick. 41.
+
+    White umbrella in México, A: Smith, Francis Hopkinson. 90.
+
+NICARAGUA:
+
+    Nicaragua: General descriptive data. 73.
+
+PANAMÁ:
+
+    Americans in Panamá, The: Scott. 89.
+
+    Panamá and Castilla del Oro, Old: Anderson. 3.
+
+    Panamá and the canal to-day: Lindsay. 50.
+
+    Panamá canal: Barrett. 8.
+
+    Panamá canal, The: Arias. 4.
+
+    Panamá, past and present: Bishop. 14.
+
+    Panamá, the canal, the country and the people: Bullard (Albert
+    Edwards). 19.
+
+    Story of Panamá, The: Gause and Carr. 42.
+
+PARAGUAY:
+
+    Buenos Aires, Tucumán y Paraguay, Ensayo de la historia civil
+    de: Funes. 39.
+
+    Historia de la conquista del Paraguay, Río de la Plata y
+    Tucumán: Lozano. 61.
+
+    History of Paraguay, The: Washburn. 100.
+
+    Independencia del Paraguay, La revolución de la: Garay. 40.
+
+    Paraguay, A list of books, magazines articles and maps relating
+    to: Decoud. 30.
+
+    Paraguay: Decoud. 30.
+
+    Paraguay: General descriptive data. 75.
+
+    Paraguay: Letters from the battle-fields of: Burton. 20.
+
+    Paraguay: the land and the people: Bourgade. 15.
+
+    Picturesque Paraguay: Macdonald. 62.
+
+    War in Paraguay, The: Thompson, George. 95.
+
+PATAGONIA: (see _Argentina_).
+
+PERÚ:
+
+    Andes and the Amazon, The: Enock. 37.
+
+    Bolivia y Perú: René-Moreno. 83.
+
+    Brazil and Perú boundary question: Moore. 71.
+
+    Chile, Perú and Brazil, Narrative of services in the liberation
+    of: Cochrane. 26.
+
+    Cuzco: Markham. 64.
+
+    Guerra del Pacífico, Mediación de los Estados Unidos de Norte
+    América en la: Logan and Calderón. 60.
+
+    Historia antigua del Perú: Lorente. 61.
+
+    History of Perú, A: Markham. 63.
+
+    History of the conquest of Perú: Prescott. 80.
+
+    Incas, First part of the royal commentaries of the: Vega. 98.
+
+    Incas, Los: Marmontel. 65.
+
+    Incas, Narratives of the rites and laws of the: Markham. 64.
+
+    Incas of Perú, The: Markham. 65.
+
+    Naval campaigns, Four modern: Clowes. 25.
+
+    Old and new Perú, The: Wright. 106.
+
+    Pachacamac: Uhle. 96.
+
+    Perú: Enock. 36.
+
+    Perú in 1906: Garland. 41.
+
+    Perú, In the wonderland of: Bingham. 12.
+
+    Perú, its story, people and religion: Guinness. 45.
+
+    Perú: Squier. 93.
+
+    Peruvian art, ancient: Baessler. 6.
+
+    Peruvian mummies, and what they teach: Mead. 69.
+
+    Search for the apex of America, A: Peck. 76.
+
+    Titicaca and Koati, The island of: Bandelier. 7.
+
+    Two years in Perú, with exploration of its antiquities:
+    Hutchinson. 51.
+
+    Visita al Perú del secretario de estado de los Estados Unidos,
+    Excmo. Sr. Elihu Root: (In Spanish and English). 86.
+
+    Vitcos, the last Inca capital: Bingham. 13.
+
+    War between Perú and Chile, The: Markham. 65.
+
+    War of the Pacific coast of South America between Chile and the
+    allied republics of Perú and Bolivia, The: Mason. 68.
+
+SALVADOR:
+
+    Salvador: General descriptive data. 87.
+
+    Salvador of the twentieth century: Martin. 67.
+
+SOUTH AMERICA, GENERAL:
+
+    Across South America: Bingham. 12.
+
+    Across unknown South America: Savage-Landor. 88.
+
+    Along the Andes and down the Amazon: Mozans. 72.
+
+    Amazon and its tributaries, Fifteen thousand miles on the:
+    Brown and Lidstone. 17.
+
+    Amazon and río Negro, A narrative of travels on the: Wallace.
+    100.
+
+    Amazons, The naturalist on the river: Bates. 9.
+
+    Andean land, The: Osborn. 75.
+
+    Around and about South America: Vincent. 99.
+
+    Bolívar, Simón, Correspondencia general del libertador:
+    Larrazábal. 56.
+
+    Bolívar, Simón: Petre. 78.
+
+    Bronze in South America before the arrival of the Europeans:
+    Mortillet. 71.
+
+    Emancipation of South America, being a condensed translation by
+    William Pilling of the history of San Martín: Mitre. 70.
+
+    History of South America, A, 1854-1904: Akers. 2.
+
+    Illustrated South America: Boyce. 15.
+
+    Independence of the South American republics, The: Paxson. 76.
+
+    Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of
+    the countries visited: Darwin. 28.
+
+    Miranda’s attempt to effect a revolution in South America, The
+    history of don Francisco de: Biggs. 11.
+
+    Pacific shores from Panamá: Peixotto. 77.
+
+    Panamá to Patagonia: Pepper. 77.
+
+    Plata, and thence overland to Perú, An account of a voyage up
+    the river de la: Biscay. 14.
+
+    South America: Bryce. 18.
+
+    South America from its discovery to the present time, The
+    history of: Deberle. 29.
+
+    South America of to-day: Clemenceau. 25.
+
+    South American archæology: Joyce. 52.
+
+    South American history and politics as a field for research,
+    The possibilities of: Bingham. 13.
+
+    South American problems: Speer. 92.
+
+    South American republics, The: Dawson. 29.
+
+    South Americans, The: Hale. 46.
+
+    South American tour, The: Peck. 76.
+
+    South America, Social, industrial and political: Carpenter. 22.
+
+    South and Central America, The republics of: Enock. 37.
+
+    South of Panamá: Ross. 86.
+
+    The flowing road. Adventures on the great rivers of South
+    America: Whitney. 102.
+
+    Through South America: Van Dyke. 98.
+
+    Voyages and discoveries in South America: Acuña, Acarete,
+    Grillet and Bechamel. 2.
+
+URUGUAY:
+
+    Primeros patriotas orientales de 1811, Los: Maeso. 63.
+
+    Uruguay en 1904, El: Roxlo. 86.
+
+    Uruguay: General descriptive data. 97.
+
+    Uruguay: Koebel. 55.
+
+    Through five republics of South America. A critical description
+    of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela in 1905:
+    Martin. 67.
+
+VENEZUELA:
+
+    Colombian and Venezuelan republics, The: Scruggs. 89.
+
+    Estudios indígenas. Contribuciones a la historia antigua de
+    Venezuela: Rojas. 85.
+
+    New Granada, The conquest of: Markham. 64.
+
+    Through five republics of South America. A critical description
+    of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela in 1905:
+    Martin. 67.
+
+    Up the Orinoco and down the Magdalena: Mozans. 72.
+
+    Venezuela: Dalton. 28.
+
+    Venezuela: General descriptive data. 99.
+
+    Venezuela, the land where it’s always summer: Curtis. 28.
+
+    Wilderness, Our search for a: Beebe. 9.
+
+
+
+
+A BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS IN SPANISH, ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE, WITH
+COMMENTS
+
+
+=Acarete du Biscay, _Mons[ieur]_: An account of a voyage up the river
+de la Plata, and thence overland to Peru. With observations on the
+inhabitants, as well as Indians and Spaniards; the cities, commerce,
+fertility, and riches of that part of America.= By _Mons[ieur]_ Acarete
+du Biscay. London, printed for Samuel Buckley, at the Dolphin over
+against St. Dunstan’s church in Fleet street, 1698. 79 pp. 12mo. 1 map.
+
+    An “original document,” and as such of interest and value,
+    provided comparison be made with other historical sources of
+    information, and with the facts which we have since acquired
+    regarding geography, etc.
+
+=Acevedo, Eduardo: José Artigas, jefe de los orientales y protector de
+los pueblos libres. Su obra cívica. Alegato histórico.= Por Eduardo
+Acevedo. (In 3 vols. 8ᵒ.) Montevideo, Gregorio V. Marino. Vol. I. 1909.
+504 pp. front. Vol. II. 1909. 663 pp. Vol. III. 1910. 888 pp.
+
+    According to the compiler, an alegato (allegation), with
+    “textual transcription of all the accusations and all the
+    eulogies of which Artigas has been the object, and an
+    examination of the evidence adduced.” It contains material
+    of value for the study of Artigas, and the history of the
+    countries about the río de la Plata during the decade from
+    1810-1820.
+
+=Acuña, Christopher de: Voyages and discoveries in South America. The
+first up the river of Amazons to Quito in Peru, and back again to Brazil,
+perform’d at the command of the king of Spain.= By Christopher D’Acugna.
+=The second up the river of Plata, and thence by land to the mines of
+Postosí.= By Mons. Acarete. =The third from Cayenne into Guiana, in
+search of the lake of Parima, reputed the richest place in the world.=
+By M. Grillet and Bechamel. Done into English from the originals, being
+the only account of those parts hitherto extant. The whole illustrated
+with notes and maps. London, printed for S. Buckley at the Dolphin over
+against St. Dunstan’s church in Fleet street, 1698. viii, [190 pp.].
+12mo. 1 map.
+
+    Valuable original sources of information regarding the
+    adventures of these early explorers, and their impressions of
+    the countries visited.
+
+=Akers, Charles Edmond: A history of South America, 1854-1904. With an
+additional chapter bringing the history to the present day.= By Charles
+Edmond Akers. New York, E. P. Dutton & co., 1912. xxviii, 716 pp. 8ᵒ.
+front. 7 maps. 46 illus.
+
+    The author says: “A residence of fourteen years in South
+    America ... brought home to me the need of a concise history
+    of the various South American states”; to meet this need he
+    felt called upon to write the present work; an examination of
+    it leads to the conclusion, however, that the want of a proper
+    history of South America in English is quite as great now as
+    it was before the appearance of this work; from the fanciful
+    presentment of the coat of arms which appears upon the cover,
+    and which is not South American, but Mexican, to the small
+    detail of spelling, this book is a jumble of surnames (often
+    unaccompanied by Christian names), statistics, unimportant
+    fragments of history, trivial generalizations, bad English
+    and inconsistent Spanish orthography; the first sentence in
+    the body of the work shows a rare ingenuity in the mixing of
+    metaphors: “The beginning of the nineteenth century found the
+    Spanish colonies seething with discontent against the rule of
+    the mother country, and so ripe for revolt that a spark only
+    was necessary to fire the train;” and this is but a foretaste
+    of the extraordinary style in which this author unburdens his
+    mind; the result is neither entertaining nor instructive.
+
+=Agassiz, _Professor_, and _Mrs._ Louis [Elizabeth Cary] Agassiz: A
+journey in Brazil.= By _Professor_ Agassiz and _Mrs._ Louis [Elizabeth
+Cary] Agassiz. Boston, Ticknor & Fields, 1868. xix, 540 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 19
+illus.
+
+    An interesting description of a journey made by acute observers
+    who were gifted with the power of expression; properly
+    documented; of importance to students of geography, botany,
+    zoölogy and ethnology.
+
+=Agassiz, Louis: Scientific results of a journey in Brazil by Louis
+Agassiz and his traveling companions. Geology and physical geography of
+Brazil.= By Ch. Fred. Hartt, professor of geology in Cornell university.
+With illustrations and maps. (Under caption: “Thayer expedition.”)
+Boston, Fields, Osgood & co., 1870. xxiii, 620 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 4 maps. 68
+illus.
+
+    A sterling and well documented work by trained observers.
+
+=Anderson, C. L. G.: Old Panama and Castilla del Oro. A narrative history
+of the discovery, conquest, and settlement by the Spaniards of Panama,
+Darien, Veragua, Santo Domingo, Santa Marta, Cartagena, Nicaragua, and
+Peru; including the four voyages of Columbus to America, the discovery
+of the Pacific ocean by Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, a description of the
+aborigines of the Isthmus, accounts of the search for the strait through
+the new world and early efforts for a canal, the daring raids of Sir
+Francis Drake, the Buccaneers in the Caribbean and South seas, the sack
+of the city of Old Panama by Henry Morgan, and the story of the Scots
+colony on Caledonia bay.= With maps and rare illustrations. By Dr. C. L.
+G. Anderson, medical reserve corps, United States army; etc. Boston, The
+Page co., MDCCCCXIV. xv, 559 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 3 maps. 38 illus.
+
+    A welcome and readable volume which deals with the history
+    of the Isthmus of Panamá during the early colonial period,
+    composed largely of free translations of documentary material,
+    without adequate foot-notes.
+
+=Argentine republic, The: General descriptive data prepared in June,
+1909.= By the International bureau of American republics. Washington,
+D.C., Government printing office, 1909. 32 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph. 15 illus.
+
+    While this pamphlet, from the very nature of the case, like
+    other similar pamphlets published by the Pan American union,
+    is necessarily of very limited scope, it is of value to the
+    general reader who may be interested in present or moderately
+    recent conditions.
+
+=Arias, Harmodio: The Panama canal. A study in international law and
+diplomacy.= By Harmodio Arias, B.A., LL.B., sometime exhibitioner
+and prizeman of St. John’s college, Cambridge, Quain prizeman in
+international law, university of London. London, P. S. King & son, 1911.
+xiv, 192 pp. 12mo.
+
+    A well documented review of the treaties, and of the bearing
+    of the Monroe doctrine, a consideration of the principles
+    which underlie the neutralization of waterways, a comparison
+    of the Suez and the Panamá canals and a discussion of the
+    fortification of the Panamá canal, with an appendix containing
+    the treaties involved.
+
+=Aymé, Louis H.: Ancient temples and cities of the new world—Mitla.= By
+Louis H. Aymé, consul general of the United States at Lisbon, Portugal.
+Bulletin of the Pan American union, September, 1911. pp. 548-567. 3 maps.
+12 illus.
+
+    Devoted in the main to a description of the group of structures
+    known as the hall or palace of the pillars or northern group,
+    and the southern group; an interesting popular description,
+    with excellent pictures.
+
+=Baerlein, Henry: Mexico, the land of unrest. Being chiefly an account
+of what produced the outbreak in 1910, together with the story of
+the revolution down to this day.= By Henry Baerlein, lately special
+correspondent of “The Times,” in Mexico, author of “On the forgotten
+road,” “The Diwan of Abu’l Ala,” etc. London, Herbert & Daniel, [1913].
+ix, 461 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 86 illus.
+
+    A bulky work with a title-page in two colors, intended to
+    explain the downfall of Porfirio Díaz and to give an account
+    of subsequent events; egotistical, dogmatic, vindictive,
+    reportorial in style, wanting in perspective of experience or
+    knowledge of history; one of numerous recent works that, while
+    seeking to explain conditions in México, have but obscured the
+    situation.
+
+=Baessler, Arthur: Ancient Peruvian art. Contributions to the archæology
+of the empire of the Incas.= From his collections by Arthur Baessler.
+Translation by A. H. Keane. (In 4 vols. 20 × 14⅝ in.) Leipsic, Karl
+W. Hiersemann; Berlin, A. Asher & co.; New York, Dodd, Mead & co.,
+1902-1903. Vol. I. Drawings and paintings, representations in relief and
+on the round on north Peruvian earthenware; ornamental motives, houses
+and temple-pyramids; human beings, plates 1-49. Vol. II. Drawings and
+paintings, representations in relief and on the round on north Peruvian
+earthenware; mythical animals, plates 50-81. Vol. III. Drawings and
+paintings, representations in relief and on the round on north Peruvian
+earthenware; mythical persons, plates 82-130. Vol. IV. Paintings on
+earthenware from Pachacamac, plates 131-165.
+
+    Of rare interest and importance to students of Peruvian
+    archæology.
+
+=Bancroft, Hubert Howe: History of Mexico; being a popular history of the
+Mexican people from the earliest primitive civilization to the present
+time.= By Hubert Howe Bancroft. Maps and illustrations. New York, The
+Bancroft co., 1914. iv, 581 pp. 12mo. 47 maps. 151 illus.
+
+    Practically a reprint of the edition of 1887, with a few highly
+    colored additions, made to cover recent events; awkward and
+    inaccurate in style, and adding nothing of importance to the
+    general accumulation of knowledge; a disappointment, in view
+    of the fact that this author had access to vast stores of
+    information already collected by himself.
+
+=Bancroft, Hubert Howe: History of the Pacific states of North America.=
+By Hubert Howe Bancroft. (Of this Mexico is treated in Vols. IV-IX.) San
+Francisco, A. L. Bancroft & co., 1883. Vol. IV. 1516-1521. cxii, 702 pp.
+8ᵒ. 6 maps, 5 in text. 3 illus. Vol. V. 1521-1600. xiv, 790 pp. 8ᵒ. 17
+maps, 16 in text. 5 illus. Vol. VI. 1600-1803. xv, 780 pp. 8ᵒ. 14 maps,
+13 in text. 5 illus. Vol. VII. 1804-1824. xiv, 829 pp. 8ᵒ. 30 maps in
+text. 7 illus. Vol. VIII. xiii, 812 pp. 8ᵒ. 34 maps, 33 in text. Vol. IX.
+xii, 760 pp. 8ᵒ. 25 maps, 24 in text.
+
+    A veritable storehouse and bibliography of material for
+    history; in no sense an ordered and finished work.
+
+=Bandelier, A. F.: The gilded man (El dorado), and other pictures of the
+Spanish occupancy of America.= New York, D. Appleton & co., 1893. 302 pp.
+8ᵒ.
+
+    A reliable, interesting and dramatic relation of the following
+    ancient stories: I: El dorado: 1 Cundinamarca, 2 Meta, 3
+    Omagua, 4 The expedition of Úrsula and Aguirre; II: Cibola: 1
+    The Amazons, 2 The seven cities, 3 Francisco Vásquez Coronado,
+    4 The New Mexican pueblos, 5 Quivira; III: The massacre of
+    Cholula; IV: The ancient city of Santa Fe; V: Jean l’Archévéque.
+
+=Bandelier, Adolph F[rancis Alphonse]: The island of Titicaca and Koati.=
+Illustrated By Adolph F[rancis Alphonse] Bandelier. New York, The
+Hispanic society of America, 1910. xvi (1), 358 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 3 maps. 82
+illus.
+
+    An accurate and illuminating account of the central shrine of
+    the Incas, by one whose intimate knowledge of the native races
+    of America, based upon competent and thorough researches, makes
+    him a prime authority.
+
+=Baralt, Rafael María, y Díaz, Ramón: Resúmen de la historia de Venezuela
+desde el año de 1797 hasta el de 1850.= Por Rafael María Baralt y Ramon
+Diaz. Tiene al fin un breve bosquejo histórico que comprende los años
+de 1834 hasta 1857. (In 3 vols. 12mo.) Paris, imprenta de H. Fournier y
+compⁱᵃ, 1841. Vol. I. 598 [1] pp. front. 19 illus. Vol. II. 571 [1] pp.
+front. 21 illus. Vol. III. 448 [1] pp. front. 4 illus.
+
+    A work that covers the most important period of the history
+    of this country; of merit and importance, and worthy of the
+    attention of serious investigators, particularly of those who
+    are interested in the career of Bolívar.
+
+=Barra, Eduardo de la: El problema de los Andes.= By Eduardo de la Barra,
+ingeniero geógrafo. Buenos Aires, imprenta de Pablo E. Coni é hijos,
+1895. 407 pp. 12mo.
+
+    A technical discussion of the boundary between Chile and
+    Argentina, written in a good spirit, and of considerable value
+    for the historian and the geographer.
+
+=Barrett, John: Latin-America of to-day and its relations to the United
+States.= In proceedings of American political science association at the
+14th annual meeting held in Madison, Wisconsin, December 27-31, 1907. pp.
+34-45. 8ᵒ. By honorable John Barrett, director general of the bureau of
+American republics. Baltimore, Maryland, The Waverly press, 1908.
+
+    A hasty review of the relations existing seven years ago
+    between the United States and the countries to the southward,
+    with a sketch of the development of the International bureau of
+    American republics (Pan American union).
+
+=Barrett, John: Panama canal, what it is, what it means.= By John
+Barrett, director general of the Pan American union, etc. Washington,
+D.C., Pan American union, 1913. 120 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 7 maps. 82 illus.
+
+    An historical sketch of the Isthmus, and of the Canal, and
+    of the works pertaining to it, with a considerable array
+    of statistics, a gazetteer of names, a collection of maps
+    and pictures which gives a good idea of the undertaking; of
+    interest to the general reader.
+
+=Bates, Henry Walter: The naturalist on the river Amazons. A record of
+adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and
+aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel.= By
+Henry Walter Bates. In two vols. London, John Murray, 1863. Vol. I. viii,
+351 pp. 12mo. front. 1 map. 17 illus. Vol. II. iv, 423 pp. 12mo. front.
+23 illus.
+
+    The personal observations of a discerning traveler and
+    investigator, made before many of the regions which he visited
+    had fallen under European influence.
+
+=Bechamel, Francis=: (see _Grillet_ and _Acuña_).
+
+=Beebe, Mary Blair, and C. William: Our search for a wilderness. An
+account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British
+Guiana.= By Mary Blair Beebe and C. William Beebe, curator of ornithology
+in the New York zoölogical park, etc. Illustrated with photographs from
+life taken by the authors. New York, Henry Holt & co., 1910. xi, 408 pp.
+8ᵒ. front. 160 illus.
+
+    Worthy of all praise and of universal possession; many of the
+    illustrations are of extraordinary excellence.
+
+=Bell, Alured Gray: The beautiful Rio de Janeiro.= By Alured Gray Bell.
+London, Heinemann, (no date). xix, 194 pp. 4ᵒ. front. 3 maps. 2 charts.
+58 illus. in colors, 110 illus. in black and white.
+
+    The author has the frankness to say in his introduction:
+    “This is a subventioned work—subventioned by ... ministers of
+    state and other magnates, who desire that English-speaking
+    people should be better acquainted than our schoolboy with the
+    magnificent metropolis of Brazil. Under such obligations I have
+    endeavored to avoid flattery, quite satisfied that it defeats
+    the very purpose of advertisement.” Bearing this in mind, and
+    expecting only the popular, superficial and admirative style,
+    the reader will not be disappointed in this work; it gives
+    a good impression of the Brazilian capital, and furnishes
+    statistics and other data regarding the city, its institutions,
+    trade, etc.
+
+=Bell, Edward I.: The political shame of Mexico.= By Edward I. Bell,
+formerly editor and publisher of “La Prensa” and “The Daily Mexican” of
+Mexico City. New York, McBride, Nast & co., 1914. [ix], 422 pp. 12mo.
+front. 11 illus. (Under series caption: “International bureau of American
+republics.”)
+
+    Although wanting in perspective of historical knowledge,
+    displaying evidence of bias, and in many respects inaccurate,
+    this work is based upon well used exceptional opportunities
+    for personal observation regarding the secret diplomacy of the
+    successors of Díaz; it is therefore an interesting and valuable
+    human document, in which the author seems to make good his
+    contention that, although the government of the United States
+    has usually been honest in its dealings with México, it has
+    been invariably mistaken.
+
+=Bennett, Frank: Forty years in Brazil.= By Frank Bennett. Illustrated.
+London, Mills & Boon, ltd., [1914.] xxiii, 271 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 30 illus.
+
+    A little of everything: geography, history, science, trade,
+    customs; to be commended for simplicity, accuracy, kind of
+    information supplied, emphasis, and general readableness.
+
+=Bernárdez, Manuel: El Brazil, su vida, su trabajo, su futuro. Itinerario
+periodístico.= Por Manuel Bernárdez. Buenos Aires (R. Argentina), 1908.
+xxxv, 284 pp. 8ᵒ. 4 maps, 1 of which is in relief. 122 illus.
+
+    A general survey of the country and people, with very
+    instructive although not well executed pictures.
+
+=Bigelow, John: American policy. The western hemisphere in its
+relation to the eastern.= By John Bigelow, major U.S. army, retired;
+author of “Mars-la-tour and Gravelotte,” “The principles of
+strategy,” “Reminiscences of the Santiago campaign,” “The campaign of
+Chancellorsville.” New York, Charles Scribner’s sons, 1914. vi, 184 pp.
+12mo. 1 map.
+
+    A terse, sound, philosophic and suggestive statement of the
+    principles that underlie the international policy of the United
+    States, and of the problems that confront the other countries
+    of this hemisphere and the United States in its relation to
+    them; of great value.
+
+=Biggs, James: The history of don Francisco de Miranda’s attempt to
+effect a revolution in South America in a series of letters.= By James
+Biggs, revised, corrected, and enlarged; to which are annexed sketches of
+the life of Miranda, and geographical notices of Caracas. London, printed
+for the author by T. Gillet, 1809. xv, 312 pp. 12 mo.
+
+    Letters written at the time by one who participated in the
+    venture; of use to such students as may be able to make
+    allowance for the temperament and attitude of the author.
+
+=Bigg-Wither, Thomas P.: Pioneering in south Brazil. Three years of
+forest and prairie life in the province of Paraná.= By Thomas P.
+Bigg-Wither, assoc. inst. C. E., F.R.G.S. In two vols. With map and
+illustrations. London, John Murray, 1878. Vol. I. xiii, 378 pp. 12mo.
+front. 1 map. 8 illus. Vol. II. x, 328 pp. 12mo. front. 1 map. 10 illus.
+
+    A record of interesting travel and adventures, overloaded with
+    superfluous details.
+
+=Bilbao, Manuel: Buenos Aires desde su fundación hasta nuestros dias.
+Especialmente el período comprendido en los siglos XVIII y XIX. Precedido
+de una carta del doctor don Vicente Fidel López.= Por Manuel Bilbao,
+Buenos Aires, imprenta de Juan A. Alsina, 1902. xiii. 664 pp. 8ᵒ.
+
+    A brief survey of the early history of Buenos Aires, and an
+    extended account of its more recent development, with attention
+    to well verified familiar tradition; it contains valuable
+    material for the historian.
+
+=Bingham, Hiram: Across South America. An account of a journey from
+Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí. With notes on Brazil, Argentine,
+Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.= By Hiram Bingham, Yale university. With eighty
+illustrations and maps. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin co., 1911.
+xvi, 405 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 7 maps. 75 illus.
+
+    A notable addition to the literature on this subject, judicious
+    in tone, sympathetic, the work of a trained observer; marred by
+    errors and inconsistencies of grammar and orthography.
+
+=Bingham, Hiram: In the wonderland of Peru. A work accomplished by the
+Peruvian expedition of 1912, under the auspices of Yale university and
+the National geographic society.= By Hiram Bingham, director of the
+expedition. Reprinted from the National geographic magazine, April, 1913.
+Washington, press of Judd and Detweiler, 1915. 187 pp. 8ᵒ. 1 map. 253
+illus.
+
+    An instructive popular account of the expedition and
+    investigations, with reproductions of many good photographs.
+
+=Bingham, Hiram: The Monroe doctrine, an obsolete shibboleth.= By Hiram
+Bingham. New Haven, Yale university press; London, Humphrey Milford,
+Oxford university press, MDCCCCXIII. vii, 154 pp. 16mo.
+
+    An interesting statement with which the well informed will
+    probably agree, and which emphasizes the need of a general
+    American formula and understanding that may serve to take the
+    place of what was once a useful doctrine, but which is now both
+    improper and disturbing.
+
+=Bingham, Hiram: The possibilities of South American history and politics
+as a field for research.= By Hiram Bingham. Reprinted from the “Bulletin”
+of the International bureau of the American republics [Pan American
+union.] February, 1908. 18 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph.
+
+    A suggestive and helpful indication of available materials,
+    with abundant foot-notes; of considerable bibliographical value.
+
+=Bingham, Hiram: Vitcos, the last Inca capital.= By Hiram Bingham,
+director of the Yale Peruvian expedition. In proceedings of the
+Antiquarian society, April 10, 1912-October 16, 1912. [Wooster, published
+by the society, 1912.] pp. 135-196. 8ᵒ. 1 map. 7 illus.
+
+    A genuine contribution to scientific knowledge, with a
+    bibliography at the back.
+
+=Biscay, Acarete du: An account of a voyage up the river de la Plata, and
+thence over land to Peru. With observations on the inhabitants, as well
+as Indians and Spaniards; the cities, commerce, fertility, and riches of
+that part of America.= By Acarete du Biscay. London, printed for Samuel
+Buckley, at the Dolphin over against St. Dunstan’s church in Fleet
+street, 1698. 68 pp. 12mo. [Bound in with Christopher d’Acugna’s
+work. See _Acuña_.]
+
+=Bishop, Farnham: Panamá, past and present.= By Farnham Bishop. New York,
+The Century co., 1913. xvi, 271 pp. 12mo. front. 88 illus.
+
+    A satisfactory historical sketch, and an accurate description
+    of the construction and equipment of the Canal, based
+    upon information gathered under exceptionably favorable
+    circumstances.
+
+=Bolivia: General descriptive data prepared in June, 1909.= By the
+International bureau of American republics. Washington, D.C., Government
+printing office, 1909. 13 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph. 1 illus.
+
+    See comment on the similar pamphlet: “Argentine republic, the:
+    General descriptive data,” etc.
+
+=Bonsai, Stephen: The American Mediterranean.= By Stephen Bonsai, author
+of “The fight for Santiago,” “The golden horseshoe,” etc. Illustrated.
+New York, Moffat, Yard & co., 1912. ix, 488 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 2 maps. 15
+illus.
+
+    A record of the experiences of several voyages among the
+    Caribbean countries, in the chatty, superficial style that
+    usually goes with ephemeral literature; not without interest to
+    those who are content to wander far for little information.
+
+=Bourgade, _Dr._ E. de la Dardye: Paraguay: the land and the people,
+natural wealth and commercial capabilities.= By _Dr._ E. de la Dardye
+Bourgade. English edition, edited by E. G. Ravenstein, F.R.G.S. With map
+and illustrations. London and Liverpool, George Philip & son, 1892. xiii,
+243 pp. 12mo. front. 1 map. 12 illus.
+
+    A satisfactory description of physical features, social life,
+    and industries, as seen during the author’s two years’ stay in
+    the country, with appendixes containing statistics and a table
+    of moneys, weights and measures.
+
+=Boyce, W. D.: Illustrated South America. A Chicago publisher’s
+travels and investigations in the republics of South America, with 500
+photographs of people and scenes from the Isthmus of Panama to the
+Straits of Magellan.= By W. D. Boyce, publisher of the “Chicago Saturday
+Blade” and the “Chicago Ledger.” Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally &
+co., [1912]. xv, 638 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 1 map. 500 illus.
+
+    A hodge-podge of superficial observations, crude opinions,
+    fragments of history, and statistics regarding all the
+    countries of South America, extensively but not well
+    illustrated, and written in an abominable style.
+
+=Brandon, Edgar Ewing: Latin-American universities and special schools.=
+By Edgar Ewing Brandon, vice president of Miami university, [Ohio].
+(Under caption: “United States bureau of education, bulletin, 1912: No.
+30.”) Washington, Government printing office, 1913. 153 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph. 71
+illus.
+
+    A work of exceptional value, inasmuch as it is not merely
+    the only one of its character, but also because it was
+    conscientiously and well prepared; the illustrations in
+    general are good; it should be in the hands of all North
+    American educators and librarians.
+
+=Brazil: General descriptive data prepared in June, 1909.= By the
+International bureau of American republics. Washington, D.C., Government
+printing office, 1909. 37 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph. 13 illus.
+
+    See comment on the similar pamphlet: “Argentine republic, the:
+    General descriptive data,” etc.
+
+=Brinton, Daniel G.: A primer of Mayan hieroglyphics.= By Daniel G.
+Brinton, A.M., M.D., LL.D., Sc.D., professor of American archæology and
+linguistics in the university of Pennsylvania, president of the American
+association for the advancement of science, etc., etc. (Under caption:
+“Publications of the university of Pennsylvania. Series in philology,
+literature, and archæology. Vol. II, No. 2.”) Ginn & co., agents for
+the United States, Canada, and England, (no date.) vi, 152 pp. 8ᵒ. 141
+reproductions of picture writings.
+
+    Clear, comprehensive, concise; of real interest and value for
+    the serious historian.
+
+=Brinton, Daniel G.: Rig Veda Americanus. Sacred songs of the ancient
+Mexicans, with a gloss in Nahuatl. Edited, with a paraphrase, notes and
+vocabulary.= By Daniel G. Brinton, A.M., M.D., professor of American
+archæology and linguistics in university of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia,
+the author, 1890. (Under caption: “Brinton’s library of aboriginal
+American literature. Number VIII.”) 95 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 4 illus.
+
+    Interesting to both the specialist and the general reader, to
+    the former because of its linguistic and ethnic value, to the
+    latter because of the glimpse which it gives of primitive
+    psychology.
+
+=Brinton, Daniel G.: The native calendar of Central America and Mexico,
+a study in linguistics and symbolism.= By Daniel G. Brinton, A.M., M.D.,
+LL.D., D.Sc., professor of American archæology and linguistics in the
+university of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, MacCalla & co., 1893. 59 pp. 8ᵒ.
+
+    A well documented and thorough discussion of these most
+    important of surviving intellectual monuments.
+
+=Brown, C. Barrington, and Lidstone, William: Fifteen thousand miles on
+the Amazon and its tributaries.= By C. Barrington Brown, assoc. R.S.M.,
+author of “Canoe and camp life in British Guiana,” and William Lidstone,
+C.E. With map and wood engravings. London, Edward Stanford, 1878. xiii,
+520 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 1 map. 23 illus.
+
+    A book of travel, with numerous observations and incidents;
+    although much too long, and overloaded with trivial details, it
+    contains material that may serve the student of geography and
+    ethnology.
+
+=Brown, Hubert W.: Latin America. Students’ lectures on missions.
+Princeton theological seminary. MCMI. The pagans, the papists, the
+protestants and the present-day problem.= By Hubert W. Brown, M.A.
+Illustrated. New York, Fleming H. Revell co., 1901. Reprint: Young
+people’s missionary movement of the United States and Canada, 1909. 308
+pp. 12mo. front. 20 illus.
+
+    Pardoning the obvious tendency to alliteration and the frankly
+    sectarian bias of the professional missionary, an interesting
+    plea for the author’s kind of religion, with felicitous
+    presentations of fragments of history, social usages, and the
+    life in general of fairly diversified types of people in México
+    and Central and South America.
+
+=Bruce, G. J.: Brazil and the Brazilians.= By G. J. Bruce. With eight
+illustrations. New York, Dodd, Mead & co., 1914. 307 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 7
+illus.
+
+    A source of considerable information in a very light vein.
+
+=Bryce, James: South America. Observations and impressions.= By James
+Bryce, author of “The holy Roman empire,” “The American commonwealth,”
+etc. With maps. New York, The Macmillan co., 1912. xxiv, 611 pp. 8ᵒ. 5
+maps.
+
+    Probably none but the gifted and distinguished author of this
+    work could produce so readable and interesting a volume under
+    the circumstances which attended his brief visit to South
+    America; his intention was so excellent, and the style is so
+    admirable, that one is disposed to forgive the misapprehensions
+    and consequent misinterpretations which sprang from the natural
+    limitations to which he was subjected.
+
+=Buley, E. C.: North Brazil. Physical features, natural resources, means
+of communication, manufactures and industrial development.= (South
+American handbooks.) By E. C. Buley. New York, D. Appleton & co., MCMXIV.
+216 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 3 maps. 15 illus.
+
+    An account of geography, climate, plants, animals, history,
+    distribution of population, government, social conditions,
+    industries, public service and transportation; excellent in
+    every way.
+
+=Buley, E. C.: South Brazil. Physical features, natural resources,
+means of communication, manufactures and industrial development.=
+(South American handbooks.) By E. C. Buley. London, Bath, New York, and
+Melbourne, Sir Isaac Pitman & sons, ltd., 1914. 219 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 2
+maps. 14 illus.
+
+    See comment on “North Brazil” by this author.
+
+=Bullard, Arthur [Albert Edwards]: Panama, the canal, the country and the
+people.= By Arthur Bullard. Revised edition with additional chapters.
+Illustrated, New York, The Macmillan co., 1914. xiv, 601 pp. 12mo. front.
+44 illus.
+
+    When the author says in his preface, “the works of Bancroft,
+    Fiske, Irving, Prescott and Winsor—the principal authorities
+    on the epoch of discovery and colonization—have been freely
+    used,” he utters a truth in the last part of his statement and
+    an absurdity when he characterizes these as “the principal
+    authorities,” that remove him from consideration as a serious
+    or original historian; he slides awkwardly upon the surface of
+    things, expressing himself with that dogmatism which is not
+    infrequently associated with ignorance.
+
+=Bulnes, Francisco: El verdadero Juárez y la verdad sobre la intervención
+y el imperio.= Por Francisco Bulnes. París y México, librería de la vda.
+de Ch. Bouret, 1904. 873 pp. 8ᵒ. front. of author.
+
+    A diatribe against the Mexican reformer, with a clerical and
+    conservative bias; the ample documentation does not sustain the
+    generalizations. See “Juárez” by _García, Genaro_.
+
+=Burke, Ulick Ralph: A life of Benito Juárez, constitutional president
+of Mexico.= By Ulick Ralph Burke, M.A., author of “A life of Gonsalva de
+Cordova,” etc. London and Sydney, Remington & co., 1894. x, 384 pp. 12mo.
+front. 1 map.
+
+    A well documented and useful biography, barring inexcusably
+    bad Spanish, which one must usually forgive English writers
+    regarding the American countries.
+
+=Burton, _Captain_ Richard F[rancis]: Explorations of the highlands of
+the Brazil; with a full account of the gold and diamond mines; also,
+canoeing down 1500 miles of the great river São Francisco, from Sabará
+to the sea.= By _Captain_ Richard F[rancis] Burton, F.R.G.S., etc. In 2
+vols. 8ᵒ. London, Tinsley bros., 1869. Vol. I. x, 443 pp. front. Vol. II.
+viii, 478 pp. front. 1 map.
+
+    Of much value to the student of geography who knows how to make
+    allowance for the strong and predetermining characteristics of
+    the author.
+
+=Burton, _Captain_ Richard F[rancis]: Letters from the battle-fields
+of Paraguay.= By _Captain_ Richard F[rancis] Burton, F.R.G.S., etc.,
+author of “Explorations of the highlands of Brazil,” etc. With a map and
+illustrations. London, Tinsley bros., 1870. xix, 491 pp. 8ᵒ. front.
+
+    Sprightly and interesting, in the manner of all the writings
+    of this indefatigable traveler and author, without being
+    either fair or conclusive; inadequate, dogmatic, unsupported
+    by references, yet occasionally presenting an illuminating
+    observation.
+
+=Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez=: (see _Schmidt, Ulrich_).
+
+=Calderón, Francisco García: La creación de un continente.= By Francisco
+García Calderón. París, Librería Paul Ollendorff, [1912]. xiv, 264 pp.
+12mo.
+
+    An exposition of the ideas of a brilliant Peruvian as to the
+    future of this hemisphere; much of it deals with the position
+    and attitude of the United States, the author’s views regarding
+    which seem to have been based upon European and South American
+    books rather than upon his own personal knowledge; while it
+    contains many striking passages, it is only slightly conclusive
+    and constructive.
+
+=Calderón, F[rancisco] García: Latin America: its rise and progress.=
+By F[rancisco] García Calderón, with a preface by Raymond Poincaré, of
+the French academy, president of the council of ministers. Translated by
+Bernard Miall. London and Leipsic, T. Fisher Unwin, 1913. xvii, 406 pp.
+8ᵒ. 1 map. 22 ports. 2 illus.
+
+    “Here is a book which should be read and discussed by every one
+    interested in the future of the Latin genius. It is written by
+    a young Peruvian diplomatist. It is full of life and thought.
+    History, politics, economic and social science, literature,
+    philosophy—M. Calderón is familiar with all and touches upon
+    all with competence and without pedantry. The entire evolution
+    of the South American republics is comprised in the volume
+    which he now submits to the European public.”—_M. Poincaré._ A
+    proper statement regarding this most excellent work, which may
+    not be overlooked by any student of South American affairs,
+    although many of those who know both the Americas will not
+    agree with some of the conclusions reached; the author’s
+    ideas are patently colored by his exceptional antecedents,
+    inheritance and career; the translation is unsatisfactory, and
+    the spelling of names is inconsistent, owing to the fact that
+    the translator, instead of using the correct Spanish forms,
+    took them from the French original, in which they had suffered
+    mutilation.
+
+=Calderón, Francisco García: Mediación de los Estados Unidos de Norte
+América en la guerra del Pacífico.= (See _Logan, Cornelius A._)
+
+=Calderón, Ignacio: Bolivia: address delivered by the Bolivian minister,
+Mr. Ignacio Calderón, under the auspices of the National geographic
+society at Washington, D.C. Conferencia leída en la sociedad Geográfica
+de Washington, D.C.= Por el señor Ignacio Calderón, Washington, D.C., (no
+imprint), January 25, 1907. 21 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph.
+
+    An excellent outline of the history and geography of Bolivia,
+    by one who not only understood his own country, but who had
+    that knowledge of the United States which enabled him to
+    describe what would be of interest to the people of this
+    country.
+
+=Calvo, Joaquin Bernardo: The republic of Costa Rica.= By Joaquin
+Bernardo Calvo. Translated from the Spanish and edited by L. de T.
+With an introduction, additions, and extensions by the editor. Map and
+illustrations. Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally & co., 1890. 286 pp.
+12mo. front. 1 map. 19 illus.
+
+    A little of everything thrown together: geography, history,
+    botany, zoölogy, agriculture, industries, commerce, government,
+    society; not without value.
+
+=Carpenter, Frank G.: South America, social, industrial, and political. A
+twenty-five-thousand-mile journey in search of information in the Isthmus
+of Panama and the lands of the equator, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia,
+Chile, Tierra del Fuego, the Falklands, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay,
+Brazil, the Guianas, Venezuela, and the Orinoco basin. The resources
+and possibilities of the various countries, the life and customs of the
+people, their governments, business methods, and trade.= By Frank G.
+Carpenter, author of “Through Asia” and “Through North America.” Fully
+illustrated. New York, Western W. Wilson, [1900]. vi, 625 pp. 8ᵒ. front.
+161 illus.
+
+    If the author had possessed a more extensive
+    perspective of historical knowledge before he began his
+    “twenty-five-thousand-mile journey in search of information,”
+    his book might have had an enduring value; as it is, it is but
+    crude and superficial chatter in the manner of a professional
+    guide entertaining his none too intelligent hearers.
+
+=Carr, Charles Carl: The Story of Panama. The new route to India.= (See
+_Gause, Frank A._)
+
+=Carson, W. E.: Mexico, the wonderland of the south.= By W. E. Carson.
+Illustrated. New York, The Macmillan co., 1909. xi, 439 pp. 12mo. front.
+58 illus.
+
+    The author says this book was intended “to give a pen-picture,
+    fresh, accurate, and inclusive of Mexico to-day;” whatever
+    his intention he has produced one of the most inaccurate,
+    superficial, and trivial of the numerous works which have
+    misrepresented and belittled México during these latter years.
+
+=Cevallos, Pedro Fermin: Resumen de la historia del Ecuador, desde su
+origen hasta 1845.= Per Pedro Fermin Cevallos, individuo de la academia
+Ecuatoriana y correspondiente de la Real Española. Segunda edicíon
+revisada por el autor. 5 vols. Guayaquil, imprenta de la Nacion, 1886.
+Tomo I. 540 pp. 12mo. Tomo II. 334[3] pp. 12mo. Tomo III. 414, lvi[vi]
+pp. 12mo. Tomo IV. 473, vi pp. 12mo. Tomo V. 474[1] pp. 12mo.
+
+    Not to be disregarded by the serious student, although
+    miserably printed, and not documented to any considerable
+    degree.
+
+=Chandler, Charles Lyon: Inter-American acquaintances.= By Charles Lyon
+Chandler, formerly a student at the universidad de San Marcos de Lima and
+of the universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. Sewanee, Tennessee, The
+university press, MCMXV. vi[1], 139 pp. 12mo.
+
+    Designed to show “(1) That the moral and material aid
+    and example of the United States were a factor in the
+    Latin-American wars of independence; (2) that during that time,
+    as well as previously, much was spoken and written by both
+    North and South Americans which forecasted the Pan American
+    movement, embodying the fundamental ideas on which the Pan
+    American union is based.”—_Preface._ This thesis, supported
+    by citations from documents not generally accessible, is
+    interestingly developed, and, barring occasional linguistic,
+    grammatical, and rhetorical infelicities, this little book is a
+    fair presentation of serviceable material.
+
+=Chile: General descriptive data prepared in June, 1909.= By the
+International bureau of American republics. Washington, D.C., Government
+printing office, 1909. 25 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph. 12 illus.
+
+    See comment on the similar pamphlet: “Argentine republic, the:
+    General descriptive data,” etc.
+
+=Clark, Francis E.: The continent of opportunity. The Spanish American
+republics—their history, their resources, their outlook. Together with
+a traveler’s impressions of present day conditions.= By Francis E.
+Clark, D.D., LL.D., author of “A new way around an old world,” “Fellow
+travelers,” “Training the church of the future,” etc. New York, Fleming
+H. Revell co., 1907; Young people’s missionary movement of the United
+States and Canada, xii, 349[2] pp. 12mo. 1 map. front. 22 illus.
+
+    An account of a trip of five months through Panamá, Ecuador,
+    Perú, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil; of
+    that popular character to be expected from the pen of so
+    indefatigable a traveler and organizer; not without value,
+    particularly for those who would see with the eyes of a
+    propagandist trying to be fair.
+
+=Clemenceau, Georges: South America of to-day. A study of conditions,
+social, political and commercial in Argentine, Uruguay and Brazil.= By
+Georges Clemenceau, formerly minister of France. New York and London, G.
+P. Putnam’s sons, 1911. xii, 434 pp. 8ᵒ.
+
+    Confessedly but an account of pleasant recollections of
+    travel; only slightly affected either by a knowledge of the
+    languages and history of the peoples visited, or by any serious
+    acquaintance with facts.
+
+=Clowes, _Sir_ William Laird: Four modern naval Campaigns, historical,
+strategical, and tactical.= By _Sir_ William Laird Clowes. With maps,
+plans, and a frontispiece portrait of the author. London, Hutchinson &
+co., 1906. 244 pp. 12mo. front. 11 maps. 5 plans.
+
+    The last three campaigns were in the war between Chile and
+    Perú, 1879-81; in the war in Chile between the president and
+    congress, 1891; and in the attempted revolution in Brazil,
+    1893-94; not to be overlooked by the student.
+
+=Cochrane, _Capt._ Charles Stuart: Journal of a residence and travels
+in Colombia, during the years 1823 and 1824.= By _Capt._ Charles Stuart
+Cochrane of the royal navy. (In 2 vols. 12mo.) London, printed for Henry
+Colburn, 1825. Vol. I. xv, 524 pp. front. Vol. II. viii, 517 pp. front.
+
+    Disclaiming the qualities of a writer, the author, who was
+    a chief actor in the events described, supplies historical
+    material based upon personal observation that is of service to
+    the student.
+
+=[Cochrane], Thomas, _Earl_ of Dundonald: Narrative of services in the
+liberation of Chile, Peru, and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese
+domination.= By Thomas [Cochrane], _Earl_ of Dundonald, G.C.B., admiral
+of the red; rear-admiral of the fleet, etc. (In 2 vols. 8ᵒ.) London,
+James Ridgway, MDCCCLIX. Vol. I. xxii, 293 pp. Vol. II. xi, 305 pp.
+
+    An account of the struggles for independence by one of the
+    participants; the first volume contains the history of the
+    achievement of Chilian independence and the liberation of
+    Perú as effected by the squadron under command of the author;
+    the second, that of the part he played as commander of the
+    Brazilian squadron, by means of which, as he claims, he
+    expelled all the Portuguese armaments from the eastern shores
+    of South America “while unaided by military coöperation;” it
+    supplies details for the historian, even if egotistical.
+
+=Colombia: General descriptive data prepared in June, 1909.= By the
+International bureau of American republics. Washington, D.C., Government
+printing office, 1909. 26 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph. 7 illus.
+
+    See comment on the similar pamphlet: “Argentine republic, the:
+    General descriptive data,” etc.
+
+=Conway, _Sir_ Martin: The Bolivian Andes. A record of climbing and
+exploration in the cordillera Real in the years 1898 and 1900.= By _Sir_
+Martin Conway. Illustrated. New York and London, Harper & bros., 1901.
+viii[i], 402[1] pp. 12mo. front. 74 illus.
+
+    A well written and illustrated narrative; of great scientific
+    interest and value; the appendix contains a description by L.
+    J. Spencer of the forty-six specimens collected by the author
+    in Bolivia.
+
+=Costa Rica: General descriptive data prepared in June, 1909.= By the
+International bureau of American republics. Washington, D.C., Government
+printing office, 1909. 19 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph. 7 illus.
+
+    See comment on the similar pamphlet: “Argentine republic, the:
+    General descriptive data,” etc.
+
+=Crichfield, George W.: American supremacy. The rise and progress of the
+Latin American republics and their relations to the United States under
+the Monroe doctrine.= By George W. Crichfield. In two volumes. New York,
+Brentano’s, 1908. Vol. I. ix, 561 pp. 8ᵒ. Vol. II. vii, 683[1] pp. 8ᵒ.
+
+    This work is utterly unreliable in matter and inaccurate in
+    form; more than a thousand errors in orthography alone occur in
+    the first hundred pages; in spirit it is undisguisedly biased,
+    in style, clumsy and commonplace, and it is not even plausible
+    in its vindictive hostility to Spaniards and Latin-Americans
+    whom it excoriates without giving the authorities for its
+    damaging statements; indeed, it is wanting in redeeming
+    qualities; how it ever secured a respectable publisher passes
+    understanding.
+
+=Cuba: General descriptive data prepared in June, 1909.= By the
+International bureau of American republics. Washington, D.C., Government
+printing office, 1909. 16 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph. 1 chart. 7 illus.
+
+    See comment on the similar pamphlet: “Argentine republic, the:
+    General descriptive data,” etc.
+
+=Curtis, William Eleroy: The capitals of Spanish America.= By William
+Eleroy Curtis, late commissioner from the United States to the
+governments of Central and South America. Illustrated. New York, Harper
+& bros., 1888. xv, 715 pp. 1 map. 314 illus.
+
+    Worthless, with its 314 absurd illustrations done in the bad
+    manner of the period to which this book belongs, save as an
+    indication of the progress that has been made in works of this
+    character.
+
+=Curtis, William Eleroy: Venezuela, a land where it’s always summer.= By
+William Eleroy Curtis, author of “The capitals of Spanish America,” etc.
+With a map. New York, Harper & bros., 1896. 315 pp. 12mo. 1 map.
+
+    Pardoning the absurd subtitle, and the entire absence of
+    references to sources of information, this historical sketch
+    will be found interesting to general readers, in lieu of really
+    good works on the subject.
+
+=Dalton, Leonard V.: Venezuela.= By Leonard V. Dalton, B.Sc. (Lond.),
+fellow of the Geographical and Royal geographical societies, etc. With a
+map and 34 illustrations. London and Leipsic, T. Fisher Unwin, 1912. 320
+pp. 8ᵒ. front. 1 map. 34 illus.
+
+    Devoted to geography, geology, botany, zoölogy and history,
+    beginning with pre-Columbian times and extending to the
+    present, with a study of the various states in turn, and
+    appendixes giving population, commerce, government finance and
+    bibliography; conscientious, sane, reliable, based on intimate
+    personal knowledge.
+
+=Darwin, Charles: Journal of researches into the natural history and
+geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round
+the world under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N.= By Charles Darwin,
+M.A., F.R.S. (In 2 vols. 16ᵒ.) New York, Harper & bros., 1846. Vol. I.
+vii, 351 pp. Vol. II. v, 324 pp.
+
+    Invaluable observations upon various regions and aspects of
+    South America.
+
+=Davis, Walter G.: Climate of the Argentine Republic.= By Walter G.
+Davis, director of the Argentine meteorological office. (Under caption:
+“Department of agriculture, Argentine republic.”) Buenos Aires, Argentine
+meteorological office, 1910. 111 pp. 4ᵒ. 44 plts.
+
+    Of very great value to those who are interested in this
+    subject; the charts are unusually good.
+
+=Dawson, Thomas C.: The South American republics.= (Series caption, “The
+story of the nations.”) In two parts. By Thomas C. Dawson, secretary of
+the United States legation to Brazil. New York and London, G. P. Putnam’s
+sons, Part I, 1903, Part II, 1904; Young people’s missionary movement of
+the United States and Canada, 1909. Part I. Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay,
+Brazil. xvi, 525 pp. 12mo. front. 3 maps. 24 ports. 37 illus. Part II.
+(The author then being minister of the United States to the Dominican
+republic.) Perú, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Panamá.
+xiv, 513 pp. 12mo. 3 maps. 5 ports. 57 illus.
+
+    An historical and geographical study of each of the South
+    American countries in turn; interesting, popular, simple in
+    style; without documentation; evidently the fruit of personal
+    experience and of the study of books of a secondary character,
+    whose statements the author appears to have accepted without
+    verification; often dogmatic, and sometimes needlessly caustic;
+    although numerous, the illustrations are inferior.
+
+=[Deberle, Alfred Joseph]: The history of South America from its
+discovery to the present time. Compiled from the works of the best
+authors and from authentic documents, many hitherto unpublished,
+in various archives and public and private libraries in America and
+Spain.= By an American. (Written in French by Alfred Joseph Deberle.)
+Translated from the Spanish by Adnah D[avid] Jones. With maps and index
+by the translator. London, Swan, Sonnenschein & co., lim.; New York, The
+Macmillan co., 1899. vi, 345 pp. 8ᵒ. 2 maps.
+
+    An undocumented history, readable and instructive, and of value
+    to those who are not able to obtain access to more ample works.
+
+=Decoud, José Segundo: A list of books, magazine articles, and maps
+relating to Paraguay. Books, 1638-1903. Maps, 1599-1903.= Prepared by
+José Segundo Decoud, honorary corresponding member of the International
+union of American republics, etc. A supplement to the handbook of
+Paraguay, published in September, 1902, by the International bureau of
+the American republics. Washington, Government printing office, 1904. 53
+pp. 12mo.
+
+    A bibliography of exceptional value.
+
+=Decoud, José Segundo: Paraguay. Second edition, revised and enlarged.=
+By José Segundo Decoud, honorary corresponding member of the
+International union of American republics, with a chapter on the native
+races by Dr. J. Hampden Porter. September, 1902. Washington, Government
+printing office, 1902. 187 pp. 12mo. front. 1 map. 8 illus.
+
+    It contains interesting data relating to geography, climate,
+    present population, native races, constitution and government,
+    political divisions, industries, commerce, public utilities,
+    education and religion.
+
+=Denis, Pierre: Brazil.= By Pierre Denis. Translated and with a
+historical chapter, by Bernard Miall, and a supplementary chapter by
+Dawson A. Vindin. With a map and thirty-six illustrations. London and
+Leipsic, T. Fisher Unwin, MCMXI. 388 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 3 maps. 36 illus.
+
+    This work contains an historical sketch, an account of
+    political, economic, financial and agricultural conditions,
+    with particular attention to São Paulo, Paraná, Rio Grande do
+    Sol, and Ceará; although sketchy and awkwardly arranged, it
+    contains valuable material.
+
+=Dent, Hastings Charles: A year in Brazil. With notes on the abolition
+of slavery, the finances of the empire, religion, meteorology, natural
+history, etc.= By Hastings Charles Dent, C.E., F.L.S., F.R.G.S., member
+of the Manchester literary and philosophical society, etc. With ten
+full-page illustrations and two maps. London, Kegan Paul, Trench & co.,
+1886. xvii, 444 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 2 maps. 9 illus.
+
+    A journal of life and study in various parts of the country,
+    with an appendix which contains interesting data respecting
+    mines, railways, religion, slavery, currency, meteorological
+    conditions, botany and zoölogy.
+
+=Díaz del Castillo, Bernal: Historia verdadera de la conquista de la
+Nueva España.= Por Bernal Díaz del Castillo, uno de sus conquistadores.
+Única edición hecha según el códice autógrafo. La publica Genaro García.
+(In 2 vols. 8ᵒ.) México, oficina tipográfica de la secretaría de Fomento,
+1904. Tomo I. lxxxiii, 506 pp. front. Tomo II. 560 pp.
+
+    One of the most important of the early documents; never to
+    be overlooked by the historian, and of interest even to the
+    general reader who may have the patience to master its peculiar
+    style.
+
+=Díaz, Ramón=: (see _Baralt, Rafael María_).
+
+=Dixie, _Lady_ Florence [C. D.]: Across Patagonia.= By _Lady_ Florence
+[C. D.] Dixie. With illustrations from sketches by Julius Beerbohm
+engraved by Whymper and Pearson. London, Richard Bentley & son, 1880.
+xiii, 251 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 12 illus.
+
+    The wild and little known land seen through the medium of a
+    vigorous and abundant temperament; not lacking in interest as a
+    mere narrative of travel and adventure.
+
+=Dominican Republic: General descriptive data prepared in June, 1909.=
+By the International bureau of American republics. Washington, D.C.,
+Government printing office, 1909. 17 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph. 2 charts. 6 illus.
+
+    See comment on the similar pamphlet; “Argentine republic, the:
+    General descriptive data,” etc.
+
+=Domville-Fife, Charles W.: Guatemala and the states of Central America.=
+By Charles W. Domville-Fife, author of “The great states of South
+America,” “Submarine engineering of to-day,” etc. Illustrated. London,
+Francis Griffiths; New York, James Pott & co., [1913]. 310 pp. 12mo.
+front. 1 map. 56 illus.
+
+    Although frankly effusive and too optimistic, and of that
+    popular character that annoys the student, it contains
+    occasional quotations, accounts of observations and odds and
+    ends of information that may be valuable to the patient reader.
+
+=Domville-Fife, Charles W.: The United States of Brazil. With a chapter
+on the republic of Uruguay.= By Charles W. Domville-Fife, author of
+“Submarines of the world’s navies.” Illustrated. New York, James Pott &
+co., [1911]. xxii, 249 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 1 map. 102 illus.
+
+    Part one, which consists mainly of extracts from early writers,
+    brings interesting material within easy reach; part two is a
+    general description of present conditions; although commonplace
+    in style and clumsy in arrangement, it contains instructive
+    data.
+
+=Dupaix, _M_[_onsieur_ Guillaume]: Monuments of New Spain.= By
+_M_[_onsieur Guillaume_] Dupaix. From the original drawings executed by
+order of the king of Spain. (In _Kingsborough’s_ Mexican antiquities,
+Vol. IV. [No date.] Part I: 16 plts. Part II: 56 plts. Part III: 45 plts.
+In the same volume are specimens of Mexican sculpture in possession of
+M. Latour Allard, in Paris. 11 plts. containing 20 illus., and specimens
+of Mexican sculpture preserved in the British museum. 5 plts. containing
+5 illus., also plates copied from the Giro del Mondo of Gemelli Careri;
+with an engraving of a Mexican cycle, from a painting formerly in the
+possession of Boturini. 4 plts. containing 8 illus. Specimens of Peruvian
+Quipus with plates representing a carved Peruvian box containing a
+collection of supposed Peruvian Quipus. 7 plts. containing 7 illus.)
+
+    A remarkable collection of drawings of ancient Mexican
+    monuments and figures, some of which no longer exist; of rare
+    interest to the student of archæology.
+
+=Dupierry ... _el doctor dn._: Opúsculo. Cuba y Puerto Rico. Medios de
+conservar estas dos Antillas en su estado de esplendor.= Por un negrófilo
+concienzudo. (_El doctor dn._ ... Dupierry.) Madrid, José Cruzado, 1866.
+157 pp. 16mo.
+
+    An impassioned statement of the old and now abandoned arguments
+    in favor of human slavery as applied to Cuba and Puerto Rico;
+    it is interesting for the light it sheds upon local conditions.
+
+=Ecuador: General descriptive data prepared in June, 1909.= By the
+International bureau of American republics. Washington, D.C., Government
+printing office, 1909. 15 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph. 3 illus.
+
+    See comment on the similar pamphlet: “Argentine republic, the:
+    General descriptive data,” etc.
+
+=Ecuador, Guía comercial, agrícola e industrial de la república del.=
+Editada per la compañía “Guía del Ecuador.” Guayaquil, talleres de artes
+Gráficas de E. Rodenas, 1909. 1328 pp. 4ᵒ. [22 maps. 1407 illus.]
+
+    Valuable for a study of present conditions, the following
+    being an outline of the contents: political constitution,
+    physical geography, public administration, list of financial
+    institutions, mercantile societies, commerce and exchequer.
+
+=Eder, Phanor James: Colombia.= By Phanor James Eder. With 40
+illustrations and 2 maps. London and Leipsic, T. Fisher Unwin, [1913].
+xxiv, 312 pp. 8ᵒ. 2 maps. 40 illus.
+
+    An excellent work, carefully and judiciously written; although
+    intended to set forth present conditions from the standpoint
+    of the business man, sufficient, well chosen, and documented
+    historical material is introduced to furnish a proper
+    background; the illustrations really bear on the text.
+
+=Edginton, T[homas] B[enton]: The Monroe doctrine.= By T[homas] B[enton]
+Edginton, A.M., of the bar of Memphis, Tennessee. Boston, Little, Brown &
+co., 1904. vi, 344 pp. 8ᵒ.
+
+    A well documented but not uniformly satisfactory presentation
+    of the history of this policy in all its bearings; some of the
+    generalizations are vague and not sustained by what is called
+    “international law.”
+
+=Edwards, Albert: Panama, the canal, the country and the people.= (See
+_Bullard, Arthur_.)
+
+=Edwards, William Seymour: On the Mexican highlands. With a passing
+glimpse of Cuba.= By William Seymour Edwards, author of “Into the Yukon,”
+“Through Scandinavia to Moscow,” etc. Cincinnati, press of Jennings &
+Graham, [1906]. 283 pp. 12mo. front. 1 map. 98 illus.
+
+    A frank, unpretentious and sprightly narrative of travel in
+    out-of-the-way regions, that pleases because of its modest
+    honesty of statement.
+
+=Elliot, G. F. Scott: Chile, its history and development, natural
+features, products, commerce and present conditions.= By G. F. Scott
+Elliot, M.A., F.R.G.S., author of “A naturalist in mid-Africa.” With
+an introduction by Martin Hume. Illustrated. London, T. Fisher Unwin,
+MCMVII. xxviii, 363 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 2 maps. 37 illus.
+
+    A standard work, well written, reliable, documented, of
+    exceptional value; after a chapter on geology and a portion of
+    another on prehistoric times, it traces with proper emphasis
+    the course of events from the settlement to the present day; an
+    extensive bibliography at the back.
+
+=Enock, C. Reginald: Mexico: its ancient and modern civilization, history
+and political conditions, topography and natural resources, industries
+and general development.= By C. Reginald Enock, F.R.G.S., civil and
+mining engineer, author of “Peru” and “The Andes and the Amazon.”
+With an introduction by Martin Hume, M.A. With a map and seventy-five
+illustrations. New York, Charles Scribner’s sons; London, T. Fisher
+Unwin, MCMIX. xxxvi, 362 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 1 map. 63 illus.
+
+    Dealing with archæology, ethnology, history, politics, natural
+    resources, industries and commerce, the author gives each of
+    these a fairly just emphasis, and although his generalizations
+    and opinions are not always well founded, he has avoided the
+    folly of unmeasured abuse that has characterized several recent
+    writers upon México, and produced a book that will interest and
+    serve the average reader.
+
+=Enock, C. Reginald: Perú. Its former and present civilization, history
+and existing conditions, topography and natural resources, commerce and
+general development.= By C. Reginald Enock, F.R.G.S., civil and mining
+engineer, author of “The Andes and the Amazon.” London and Leipsic, T.
+Fisher Unwin, MCMXII. xxxii, 320 pp. 8ᵒ. 1 map. 1 chart. 72 illus.
+
+    When one considers the extent, both in time and space, this
+    author has attempted to cover, the marvel is that any of
+    his books should be as good as they are; this one, like the
+    rest, is not without value, although superficial, prosaic and
+    inaccurate in matter and form.
+
+=Enock, C. Reginald: Ecuador, its ancient and modern history, topography
+and natural resources, industries and social development.= By C. Reginald
+Enock, F.R.G.S., author of “The Andes and the Amazon,” “Peru,” “Mexico,”
+“The secret of the Pacific,” etc. With fifty-seven illustrations and two
+maps. New York, Charles Scribner’s sons, 1914. 375 pp. 8ᵒ. 2 maps, one
+of which is in text. 37 illus.
+
+    While this book has the weaknesses that characterize the works
+    of this author, to which attention is called in the other
+    comments, it is somewhat more fully documented than the others,
+    and being one of the very few extensive English publications
+    regarding Ecuador, it supplies an urgent need.
+
+=Enock, C. Reginald: The Andes and the Amazon. Life and travel in Perú.=
+By C. Reginald Enock, F.R.G.S. With a map, four colored plates, and
+fifty-eight other illustrations. London, T. Fisher Unwin, MCMVII. xvi,
+379 pp. 8ᵒ. front, 1 map. 4 plts. 58 illus.
+
+    In the main, a description of what the author, an insatiable
+    gatherer of easily obtainable information and a prolific writer
+    of books, saw, heard, felt and thought during his perigrination.
+
+=Enock, C. Reginald: The republics of South and Central America: their
+resources, industries, sociology and future.= By C. Reginald Enock,
+F.R.G.S., author of “The Andes and the Amazon,” “Mexico,” “An imperial
+commonwealth,” etc. London, J. M. Dent & sons, ltd.; New York, Charles
+Scribner’s sons, 1913. 544 pp. 8ᵒ. 9 maps. 16 illus.
+
+    In his preface, the author says: “The purpose of this book is
+    to provide, within the compass of a single volume, a succinct
+    study of the Latin-American republics, and their social and
+    physical condition.” His effort was only slightly successful.
+    See comment on his “Perú,” to which should be added the
+    statement, that, for some unaccountable reason, he introduces
+    a discussion of the Aztecs, and a number of pictures that have
+    nothing whatever to do with South America.
+
+=Fitch, A. H.: Junípero Serra. The man and his work.= By A. H. Fitch.
+With fifteen illustrations from photographs and a map. Chicago, A. C.
+McClurg & co., 1914. xiii, 364 pp. 12mo. front. 1 map. 15 illus.
+
+    An effort to rescue from oblivion the life of an important
+    religious pioneer to whom historians are deeply indebted for
+    facts regarding Spanish California during the years 1769-1785;
+    interesting and valuable.
+
+=Flandrau, Charles Macomb: Viva Mexico.= By Charles Macomb Flandrau,
+author of “Harvard episodes,” “The diary of a freshman,” etc. New York,
+D. Appleton & co., 1908. 293 [1] pp. 16ᵒ.
+
+    Pardoning the inexcusable butchering of the Spanish introduced,
+    it is a characteristically vivacious story of what the author
+    saw and felt and thought in México; entertaining and valuable
+    as a true picture of what an appreciative observer might behold
+    in certain localities.
+
+=Fonseca, J. J. da: Estudo analytico. Descobrimento do Brazil.= Por J. J.
+da Fonseca (almirante graduado). Rio de Janeiro, typ. Leuzinger, 1895. 35
+pp. pamph. 3 maps. 2 illus.
+
+    A scholarly presentation of the details, with references to
+    several documents.
+
+=Fomaro, Carlo de: Carranza and Mexico.= By Carlo de Fornaro. With
+chapters by Colonel I. C. Enriquez, Charles Ferguson and M[odesto] C.
+Rollandi. New York, Mitchell Kennerley, 1915. 242 pp. 12mo. front. 1 map.
+6 illus.
+
+    The dedication of this work to “President Woodrow Wilson,
+    who discovered real México to the Americans,” in a sense
+    indicates what is to follow; it is an approval of the
+    present administration’s policy in México and a plea for
+    General Carranza, with a highly laudatory sketch of his life,
+    characterized by sweeping but unsupported statements; in
+    general superficial and not illuminating.
+
+=Fraser, John Foster: The amazing Argentine. A new land of enterprise.=
+By John Foster Fraser. New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls co., 1914.
+viii, 291 pp. 12mo. front. 54 illus.
+
+    The title indicates the style of superficial chatter which
+    composes this book; the illustrations, however, are both
+    interesting and instructive.
+
+=Funes, _Doctor don_ Gregorio: Ensayo de la historia civil de Buenos
+Aires, Tucumán y Paraguay.= Escrito por el doctor don Gregorio Funes,
+dean de la santa iglesia catedral de Córdoba. Segunda edición. (2 vols,
+bound together. 8ᵒ.) Buenos Aires, 1856. Tomo I. 391 [6] pp. 1 illus.
+Tomo II. 472 [5] pp.
+
+    A work of fundamental importance because of the considerable
+    information which it contains, although written in the heavy,
+    prosaic style of the learned ecclesiastic of the period.
+
+=Fyfe, H. Hamilton: The real Mexico. A study on the spot.= By H. Hamilton
+Fyfe, author of “The new spirit in Egypt,” “South America to-day.”
+London, William Heinemann, [1914]. viii, 247 pp. 12mo. 1 map.
+
+    An amorphous mass of impressionistically presented information
+    regarding present conditions, the most of which, although
+    already possessed by the intelligent people of this country,
+    is neither interesting nor instructive as manipulated by this
+    writer.
+
+=Gadow, Hans: Through southern Mexico; being an account of the travels of
+a naturalist.= By Hans Gadow, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. With over one hundred
+and sixty full-page and other illustrations and maps. London, Witherby &
+co., 1908. xvi, 527 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 4 maps. 169 illus.
+
+    An unusually interesting account of travel, by a trained
+    observer and field naturalist, giving much information
+    regarding flora, fauna and human beings.
+
+=Gallatin, Albert: Notes on the semi-civilized nations of Mexico,
+Yucatan, and Central America.= By Albert Gallatin. (In transactions of
+the American ethnological society, Vol. I.) New York, Bartlett & Welford;
+London, Wiley & Putnam, MDCCCXLV. pp. 1-352. 8ᵒ. 1 plt. 3 tables.
+
+    A study of the languages, numeration, calendars, astronomy,
+    history and chronology, with conjectures as to the origin of
+    semi-civilization in America; appendix I contains grammatical
+    notices: Mexican, Tarascan, Otomí, Maya, Guatemalan, Huasteca;
+    appendix II, notes on Lord Kingsborough’s collection; without
+    being final, it marks one of the important stages in the
+    development of knowledge regarding the subjects discussed.
+
+=Garay, Blas: La revolución de la independencia del Paraguay.= Por Blas
+Garay. Madrid, est. tip. de la viuda e hijos de Tello, 1897. 214 pp. 16ᵒ.
+
+    An admirable short narrative, in charming style; conscientious,
+    thoroughly documented, worthy of praise and study.
+
+=García, Genaro: Carácter de la conquista española en América y en México
+según los textos de los historiadores primitivos.= Por Genaro García.
+México, oficina tipográfica de la secretaría de Fomento, 1901. 456 pp. 8ᵒ.
+
+    A carefully documented collection of materials that may serve
+    the student who has the patience to follow the processes of a
+    somewhat halting mind.
+
+=García, Genaro: Juárez. Refutación a don Francisco Bulnes.= Por Genaro
+García. México, librería de la vda. de Ch. Bouret, 1904. viii, 276 [2]
+pp. 12mo. front.
+
+    An amply documented biography, which, although partisan and
+    lacking the vigor and sprightliness of the work it is intended
+    to refute, is in general accord with the facts; a valuable
+    bibliography of seventy-two pages is to be found at the back.
+
+=García Icazbalceta, Joaquín: Colección de documentos para la historia
+de México.= Publicada por Joaquín García Icazbalceta. (In 2 vols. 4ᵒ.)
+México, librería de J. M. Andrade. Tomo primero, 1858. cliii, 544 pp.
+Tomo segundo, 1866. lxvi, 600 pp.
+
+    The documents relate to the period of the conquest and
+    settlement; they are of inestimable value for the serious
+    historian.
+
+=García Icazbalceta, J[oaquín]: Obras de D. J[oaquín] García
+Icazbalceta.= (In 5 vols. 16ᵒ.) México, imp. de V. Agüeros, 1896. Tomo I.
+Opúsculos varios. xvi, 428 [2] pp. Tomo II. Opúsculos varios. 460 [2] pp.
+Tomo III. Biografías. 436 [2] pp. Tomo IV. Biografías. 442 [3] pp. Tomo
+V. Biografías [Historiadores]. 522 pp.
+
+    A classic work; invaluable for the study of prominent
+    personages and events, and the light it sheds upon many
+    historical questions hitherto obscure or misunderstood.
+
+=Garland, Alexander: Peru in 1906. With a brief historical and
+geographical sketch.= By Alexander Garland, member of the Lima
+geographical society. Originally written in Spanish, and translated into
+English by George R. Gepp. Lima, “La industria” printing office, 1907.
+303 pp. 4ᵒ. 49 plts. 2 maps.
+
+    In the “boosting” style, yet a source of much information,
+    after the manner of a guide-book, regarding modern conditions.
+
+=Gause, Frank A., and Carr, Charles Carl: The story of Panama. The new
+route to India.= By Frank A. Gause, superintendent canal zone public
+schools, and Charles Carl Carr, principal canal zone public high school.
+Boston, New York, Chicago, Silver, Burdett & co., [1912]. xii, 290 pp.
+12mo. 2 maps in color. 89 illus.
+
+    An interesting description of the various features of
+    construction, and an account of their organization and
+    administration, with a history of the Canal project, by men who
+    were in a good position to get at the facts, and whose training
+    fitted them to write well.
+
+=Geographia-atlas do Brazil e das cinco partes do mundo. Conforme o
+“Atlas do Brazil” do Barão Homem de Mello e Dr. F. Homem de Mello e os
+melhores auctores parà a “Parte geral.”= Com um prologo do Dr. Francisco
+Cabrita (ex-director da instrucçao publica do districto federal). 35
+mappas em cinco côres (10 duplos), 166 illustrações e desenhos, 100
+paginas de texto (em 3 columnas) (1ᵃ edição). Rio de Janeiro, F. Briguiet
+& cia, 1912. xii, 100 pp. 4ᵒ. front. 35 maps. 166 illus.
+
+    Of interest and importance for the student of geography and
+    statistics.
+
+=Gillpatrick, Wallace: Wanderings in Mexico. The spirited chronicle of
+adventure in Mexican highways and byways.= By Wallace Gillpatrick (“The
+man who likes Mexico”). London, Eveleigh Nash, 1912. 374 pp. 8ᵒ. front.
+68 illus.
+
+    An account of the wanderings of one who is satisfied not to be
+    an historian, but merely to play the part of an interested and
+    sympathetic and therefore interesting traveler and observer,
+    written in a pleasing style.
+
+=Godoy, José F.: Porfirio Díaz, president of México. The master builder
+of a great commonwealth.= By José F. Godoy, author of “A few facts about
+Mexico,” “The legal and mercantile handbook of Mexico,” etc. With 60
+illustrations, maps, and diagrams. New York and London, G. P. Putnam’s
+sons, 1910. xii, 253 pp. 12mo. front. 2 maps. 7 diagrams. 51 illus.
+
+    Devoted to undiscriminating and unmeasured praise of México’s
+    recent president, without supplying in clear terms data
+    adequate to justify the high appraisal; it exhibits no
+    particular discernment, and consequently adds little to the
+    general knowledge of the man.
+
+=Goodrich, Joseph King: The coming Mexico.= (Under caption: “The
+world to-day series.”) By Joseph King Goodrich, sometime professor in
+the imperial government college, Kyoto. With 32 illustrations from
+photographs. Chicago, A. C. McClurg & co., 1913. xii, 269 pp. 12mo.
+front. 32 illus.
+
+    Only another commonplace effort to produce a book of a kind
+    already superabundant, consisting of fragments of history
+    gathered uncritically from sources more or less reliable,
+    and masses of statistics and statements regarding present
+    conditions, based upon popular hearsay; it adds nothing to the
+    general fund of information.
+
+=Gordon, George Byron: Caverns of Copan, Honduras. Report of the
+explorations by the Museum, 1896-97.= (Under caption: “Memoirs of the
+Peabody museum of American archæology and ethnology, Harvard university.
+Vol. I, Nos. 4 and 5.”) Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Museum, 1898. 56
+pp. folio. 13 plts. 35 illus. in the text.
+
+    A well written report upon explorations of prime importance,
+    printed luxuriously and admirably illustrated.
+
+=Gordon, George Byron: The hieroglyphic stairway. Ruins of Copan. Report
+of the explorations by the Museum.= (Under caption: “Memoirs of the
+Peabody museum of American archæology and ethnology. Harvard university.
+Vol. I, No. 6.”) Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Museum, 1902. 38 pp.
+folio. 18 plts. 23 illus. in the text.
+
+    See comment on the preceding.
+
+=Grillet, John, and Bechamel, Francis: A journal of the travels of John
+Grillet and Francis Bechamel into Guiana, in the year 1674. In order
+to discover the great Lake of Parima, and the many cities said to be
+situated on its banks, and reputed the richest in the world.= London,
+printed for Samuel Buckley, 1698. 68 pp. 12mo.
+
+    (Bound in with Christopher de Acuña’s work. See _Acuña_.)
+
+=Guatemala: General descriptive data prepared in June, 1909.= By the
+International bureau of American republics. Washington, D.C., Government
+printing office, 1909. 16 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph. 4 illus.
+
+    See comment on the similar pamphlet: “Argentine republic, the:
+    General descriptive data,” etc.
+
+=Guinness, Geraldine: Peru, its story, people, and religion.= By
+Geraldine Guinness. Illustrated by Dr. H. Grattan Guinness. London,
+Morgan & Scott, ltd., MCMIX. xxi, 438 pp. 8ᵒ. 3 maps. 2 diagrams. 39
+illus.
+
+    The illustrations are of rare excellence and well worth the
+    price of the book; the rest of the work is negligible.
+
+=Gutiérrez de Lara, L., and Pinchon, Edgcumb: The Mexican people; their
+struggle for freedom.= By L. Gutiérrez de Lara, author of “Story of a
+political refugee” and “Les bribones,” and Edgcumb Pinchon. Illustrated
+from photographs. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & co., 1914. xi,
+358 pp. 12mo. front. 52 illus.
+
+    A frank plea for the Indians against Spaniards and others
+    of European origin, actuated by animosity and based upon
+    ridiculous misstatements, of which the following may serve
+    as an illustration: “At the time of the conquest they (the
+    Indians) were in full enjoyment of a civilization greatly
+    superior in many respects to that of Teutonic Europe, and
+    certainly superior in every respect to that of the Spanish
+    nation which subjugated and enslaved them;” this book will have
+    no standing with those who know the facts; those who do not are
+    warned to read it with due allowance for personal venom.
+
+=Habel, S.: The sculptures of Santa Lucía Cosumalwhuapa in Guatemala.
+With an account of travels in Central America and on the western coast
+of South America.= By S. Habel, M.D., Washington, D.C., Smithsonian
+institution, 1878. (Under caption: “Smithsonian contributions to
+knowledge, 269.”) iii, 90 pp. folio. 8 plts., showing 23 sculptures.
+
+    A valuable account of archæological and ethnological
+    investigation in Central and South America, slightly marred by
+    an attempt to make a serious and necessarily prosaic subject
+    airy and popular.
+
+=Haiti: General descriptive data prepared in June, 1909.= By the
+International bureau of American republics. Washington, D.C., Government
+printing office, 1909. 14 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph. 4 illus.
+
+    See comment on the similar pamphlet: “Argentine republic, the:
+    General descriptive data,” etc.
+
+=Hale, Albert: Practical guide to Latin America, including Mexico,
+Central America, the West Indies and South America. Preparation, cost,
+routes, sight-seeing.= By Albert Hale, A.B., M.D., member of the
+Geographical society of Rio de Janeiro, etc. Boston, Small, Maynard &
+co., [1909]. xi, 249 pp. 16ᵒ.
+
+    While not wholly useless to a first visitor, it is inferior to
+    excellent guides to México and the West Indies which already
+    exist, and it but serves to emphasize the need of a really good
+    guide to South America; inaccurate and badly arranged.
+
+=Hale, Albert: The South Americans. The story of the South American
+republics, their characteristics, progress and tendencies; with special
+reference to their commercial relations with the United States.= By
+Albert Hale, A.B., M.D., member of the Geographical society of Rio de
+Janeiro. Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill co., [1907]. 352 pp. 12mo.
+front. 3 maps. 63 illus.
+
+    A sort of guide-book, with special reference to Argentina,
+    Uruguay, Brazil and Venezuela, with historical notes, in a
+    pleasing style; as such it has interest and value; many of the
+    broad generalizations, however, are open to question.
+
+=Halstead, Murat: The story of Cuba; her struggles for liberty; the
+cause, crisis and destiny of the pearl of the Antilles.= By Murat
+Halstead. Graphically illustrated with numerous typical photographic
+reproductions and original drawings, including those of the United States
+battleship Maine. Sixth edition, revised to date. Akron, Ohio, The Werner
+co., [1896]. 649 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 1 map. 48 illus.
+
+    The title-page is a sufficient indication of the character of
+    this bombastic, garrulous and hurriedly composed work, which
+    was thrown together to meet demands created by the conditions
+    that preceded the wars of 1896 and 1898.
+
+=Hancock, Anson Uriel: A history of Chile.= By Anson Uriel Hancock,
+author of “Old Abraham Jackson,” “Coitlan; a tale of the Inca world,”
+etc. Chicago, Charles H. Sergel & co., MDCCCXCIII. xx, 471 pp. 8ᵒ. front.
+3 maps. 8 illus.
+
+    A connected account of the period between 1829 and 1879,
+    not usually accorded full treatment, with chapters on the
+    war with Perú and the civil war of 1891, and an appendix
+    containing geographical data, the political constitution and a
+    bibliography; worthy of consideration.
+
+=Hazard, Samuel: Santo Domingo, past and present; with a glance at
+Hayti.= By Samuel Hazard, author of “Cuba, with pen and pencil.” Maps and
+numerous illustrations. New York, Harper & bros., 1873. xxix, 511 pp.
+12mo. front. 1 map. 151 illus.
+
+    A work whose sole value consists in the inaccurate bibliography
+    at the front.
+
+=Heape, Walter: The proportion of sexes produced by whites and coloured
+peoples in Cuba.= (Contained in “Philosophical transactions of the Royal
+society of London. Series B, Vol. 200.”) By Walter Heape, M.A., F.R.S.,
+Trinity college, Cambridge. London, printed by Harrison & sons, 1909. pp.
+271-330. 4ᵒ.
+
+    An interesting and valuable study, with a considerable
+    bibliography at the back.
+
+=Helps, _Sir_ Arthur: The Spanish conquest in America, and its relation
+to slavery and to the government of colonies.= By _Sir_ Arthur Helps.
+A new edition, edited, with an introduction, maps, and notes, by M.
+Oppenheim. (In 4 vols. 12mo.) London and New York, John Lane. Vol. I.
+MDCCCC. xxxviii, 369 pp. 10 maps. Vol. II. MDCCCCII. ix [i], 365 pp. 8
+maps. Vol. III. MDCCCCII. xli [i], 400 pp. 8 maps. Vol. IV. MDCCCCIV. x
+[i], 374 pp. 5 maps.
+
+    “Whether the reader agrees or disagrees, with some of the
+    author’s views, he will at least determine that it is the work
+    of a scholar and a Christian gentleman—two qualities not always
+    united in the historian—and therefore a formative influence,
+    as all such books are, in the growth of the moral forces
+    silently directing humanity towards higher ideals.”—_Editor’s
+    introduction._ A work which every thorough student must
+    consider, and from which he will derive assistance; greatly
+    improved by the editor.
+
+=Herndon, Wm. Lewis, and Gibbon, Lardner: Exploration of the valley of
+the Amazon, made under the direction of the navy department.= (Under
+caption: “Senate: 32d congress, 2d session.”) By Wm. Lewis Herndon and
+Lardner Gibbon, lieutenants United States navy. (In 2 vols. 8ᵒ.) Part
+I by Lieut. Herndon. Washington, Robert Armstrong, public printer,
+1853. 414 [3] pp. front. 15 illus. Part II by Lieut. Lardner Gibbon.
+Washington, A. O. P. Nicholson, public printer, 1854. x, 339 pp. front. 2
+maps. 35 illus.
+
+    A matter-of-fact narrative of extended and painstaking
+    explorations; volume one contains an appendix which gives a
+    table of the approximate heights and distances from Callao to
+    the Atlantic, and a meteorological journal; volume two, an
+    appendix which gives observations with sextant and artificial
+    horizon and meteorological observations; of value to the
+    student of physiography.
+
+=Hills, Elijah Clarence, and Morley, S. Griswold: Modern Spanish lyrics.=
+Edited with introduction, notes and vocabulary. By Elijah Clarence Hills,
+Ph.D., Litt.D., professor of romance languages in Colorado college, and
+S. Griswold Morley, Ph.D., university of Colorado. New York, Henry Holt &
+co., 1913. lxxxiii, 435 pp. 12mo.
+
+    The second half of this work contains lyrical selections from
+    the poetry of Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, México,
+    Nicaragua and Venezuela, a number of “canciones” with music,
+    and notes and a vocabulary; the authors have exercised wisdom
+    in making their choice of verse, and in general the orthography
+    is correct, and the notes are instructive; it offers in
+    convenient form worthy specimens of the poetry of Latin America.
+
+=Hirst, W. A.: Argentine.= By W. A. Hirst. With an introduction by Martin
+Hume. With a map. London and Leipsic, T. Fisher Unwin, MCMXII. xviii, 308
+pp. 8ᵒ. front. 1 map. 64 illus.
+
+    A chapter on geography, eight chapters on history and fourteen
+    upon government, politics, racial elements, social life in town
+    and country, religion, education, literature, industries and
+    commerce, and a brief bibliography, compose this work; it is
+    a generally useful, reliable and fairly well documented book,
+    barring the inevitable vexatiously inaccurate Spanish; the
+    illustrations are unusually good.
+
+=Honduras: General descriptive data prepared in June, 1909.= By the
+International bureau of American republics. Washington, D.C., Government
+printing office, 1909. 14 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph. 4 illus.
+
+    See comment on the similar pamphlet: “Argentine republic, the:
+    General descriptive data,” etc.
+
+=Honduras. Prehistoric ruins of Copan. A preliminary report of the
+explorations.= By the museum, 1891-1895. (Under caption: “Memoirs of the
+Peabody museum of American archæology and ethnology, Harvard university.
+Vol. I, No. 1.”) Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Museum, 1896. iv, 48 pp.
+folio. 9 plts. 19 illus. in the text.
+
+    A good account of important explorations, luxuriously printed
+    and excellently illustrated.
+
+=Humboldt, Alexander de: Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain.=
+By Alexander de Humboldt. With physical sections and maps, founded
+on astronomical observations, and trigonometrical and barometrical
+measurements. (In 4 vols. 12 mo.) London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme,
+and Brown; and H. Colburn; Edinburgh, W. Blackwood, and Brown & Crombie,
+1811. Vol. I. cxiv, 289 pp. 8 maps on 1 plt. Vol. II. 531 [1] pp. 4 maps.
+3 sections. 2 illus. Vol. III. 493 pp. 1 map. 4 sections. Vol. IV. 415
+pp. 1 map.
+
+    A classic among books of this character, clear, accurate and
+    based upon information gathered by one of the keenest of
+    observers; it will never be wholly superseded or overlooked.
+
+=Hutchinson, Thomas J[oseph]: Two years in Peru, with exploration of its
+antiquities.= By Thomas J[oseph] Hutchinson, F.R.G.S., F.R.S.L., M.A.I.,
+vice-president d’honneur de l’institut d’Afrique, Paris; etc. With map
+by Daniel Barrera, and numerous illustrations. In two volumes. London,
+Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1873. Vol. I. xxiv, 343 pp. 8ᵒ.
+front. 1 map. 65 illus. Vol. II. xii, 334 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 44 illus.
+
+    After one pardons the idiosyncrasies of orthography and the
+    tendency to garrulousness, he will find here information of
+    value, based upon personal knowledge.
+
+=Ixtlilxóchitl, Fernando de Alva: Historia chichimeca.= Por don
+Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl. 209 pp. (In _Kingsborough’s_ “Mexican
+Antiquities,” Vol. IX, which see.)
+
+    Probably the first work by a native writer who employed
+    the Spanish language as a vehicle for utterance; of great
+    historical importance, although naturally it must be corrected
+    by comparison with parallel sources of information.
+
+=Ixtlilxóchitl, Fernando de Alva: Relaciones de don Fernando de Alva
+Ixtlilxóchitl.= 151 pp. (In _Kingsborough’s_ “Mexican Antiquities,” Vol.
+IX, which see.)
+
+    For comment, see “Historia chichimeca,” by _Ixtlilxóchitl,
+    Fernando de Alva_.
+
+=Janvier, Thomas A.: Legends of the city of Mexico.= Collected by Thomas
+A. Janvier, member of the Folk-lore society, London. Illustrated with 6
+pictures by Walter Appleton Clark and by photographs of places. New York
+and London, Harper & bros., MCMX. xix, 165 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 13 illus.
+
+    Nineteen legends, genuine productions of the people of the land
+    or of their Spanish or Indian ancestors, told in a manner that
+    will make them attractive to either the general reader or the
+    folklorist.
+
+=Joyce, Thomas A.: South American archæology. An introduction to the
+archæology of the South American continent with special reference to the
+early history of Perú.= By Thomas A. Joyce. With numerous illustrations
+and a map. London, Macmillan & co., MDCCCCXII. xv, 292 pp. 8ᵒ. front. in
+colors. 2 maps. 26 illus. in half tone. 37 illus. in text.
+
+    The title of this book should be “Peruvian archæology and
+    ethnology, with a slight reference to that of Colombia,
+    Ecuador, Bolivia and the southern Andean lands;” it is mainly
+    a compilation from Markham, Squier, Bandelier and Uhle, and
+    as such it is well done, being written in a clear style and
+    excellently illustrated; for the student who has not access to
+    these works it has value.
+
+=[Kingsborough, Edward King, _Viscount_]: Antiquities of Mexico:
+comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics,
+preserved in the royal libraries of Paris, Berlin and Dresden, in the
+Imperial library of Vienna, in the Vatican library; in the Borgian
+museum at Rome; in the library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the
+Bodleian library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by
+M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying
+descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited
+manuscripts.= By Augustine Aglio. London, A. Aglio, 1830-1848. 9 vols.
+folio. (Published by Henry G. Bohn.... 1849.)
+
+This monumental work contains the following: Volume I: “Copy of the
+collection of Mendoza, preserved in the Bodleian library at Oxford.”
+73 pp. “Copy of the codex Telleriano-Remensis, preserved in the Royal
+library at Paris.” 93 pp. “Fac-simile of an original Mexican hieroglyphic
+painting, from the collection of Boturini.” 23 pp. “Fac-simile of an
+original Mexican painting, preserved in the collection of Sir Thomas
+Bodley, in the Bodleian library at Oxford.” 40 pp. “Fac-simile of an
+original Mexican painting, preserved in the Selden collection of MSS.
+in the Bodleian library at Oxford.” 20 pp. “Fac-simile of an original
+Mexican hieroglyphic painting, preserved amongst the Selden collection
+in the Bodleian library at Oxford.” Volume II: “Copy of a Mexican MS.
+preserved in the Library of the Vatican.” 149 pp. “Fac-simile of an
+original Mexican painting given to the university of Oxford by Archbishop
+Laud, and preserved in the Bodleian library.” 46 pp. “Fac-simile of an
+original Mexican painting preserved in the library of the Institute at
+Bologna.” 24 pp. “Fac-simile of an original Mexican painting preserved
+in the Imperial library at Vienna.” 66 pp. “Fac-similes of original
+Mexican paintings deposited in the Royal library at Berlin by the Baron
+de Humboldt, and of a Mexican bas-relief preserved in the Royal cabinet
+of antiquities.” Volume III: “Fac-simile of an original Mexican painting
+preserved in the Borgian museum, at the college of Propaganda in Rome.”
+76 pp. “Fac-simile of an original Mexican painting preserved in the
+Royal library at Dresden.” 74 pp. “Fac-simile of an original Mexican
+painting in the possession of M. de Fejérváry, at the Pess in Hungary.”
+44 pp. “Fac-simile of an original Mexican painting preserved in the
+library of the Vatican.” 96 pp. Volume IV: “Monuments of New Spain, by
+M. Dupaix, from the original drawings executed by order of the king of
+Spain.” (In 3 parts.) “Specimens of Mexican sculpture, in the possession
+of M. Latour Allard, in Paris. Specimens of Mexican sculpture preserved
+in the British museum. Plates copied from Giro del Mondo of Gemelli
+Carerí; with an engraving of a Mexican cycle, from a painting formerly
+in the possession of Boturini. Specimens of Peruvian Quipus with plates
+representing a carved Peruvian box containing a collection of supposed
+Peruvian Quipus.” Volume V: “Containing introduction and extrait de
+l’ouvrage de M. de Humboldt sur les monuments de l’Amérique.” 493 pp.
+Volume VI: Appendix: “The interpretation of the hieroglyphical paintings
+of the collection of Mendoza. Index to first part of the collection of
+Mendoza. Index to the names of persons and offices. The explanation
+of the hieroglyphical paintings of the codex Telleriano-Remensis. The
+translation of the explanation of the Mexican paintings of the codex
+Vaticanus. Notes. The Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix. Notes.” 540
+pp. Volume VII: “Historia universal de las cosas de Nueva España por el
+M. R. P. Fr. Bernardino de Sahagun, de la orden de los frayles menores
+de la observancia.” 464 pp. Volume VIII: “Supplementary notes to the
+antiquities of Mexico.” 424 pp. Volume IX: “Cronica Mexicana de Fernando
+de Alvarado Tezozomoc.” 196 pp. “Historia Chichimeca por don Fernando
+de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl.” 209 pp. “Relaciones de don Fernando de Alva
+Ixtlilxóchitl.” 151 pp. “Ritos antiguos, sacrificios é idolatrias de los
+Indios de la Nueva España y de su conversion á la Fée y quienes fueron
+los que primero la predicaron.” 60 pp.
+
+    Seldom have human perseverance and self-sacrifice brought
+    together a more interesting and valuable collection of writings
+    pertaining to the early history of a people than those that are
+    to be found in these rare volumes; they not only exhibit the
+    ingenuity of the Aztecs and the inquisitiveness and versatility
+    of the early Spanish writers, but they supply data to which
+    every historian of México must inevitably have recourse.
+
+=Kirkham, Stanton Davis: Mexican trails. A record of travel in Mexico,
+1904-09, and a glimpse at the life of the Mexican Indian.= By Stanton
+Davis Kirkham, author of “The philosophy of self-help,” “Where dwells the
+soul serene,” “The ministry of beauty,” etc. Illustrated from original
+photographs by the author. New York and London, G. P. Putnam’s sons,
+1909. xvii, 293 pp. 12mo. front. 23 illus.
+
+    An entertaining, impressionistic portrayal of scenes and
+    experiences, mainly in out-of-the-way places, by one whose
+    varied interests did not include scraps of commonplace history,
+    statistics, or the offhand solution of the nation’s problems.
+
+=Koebel, W. H.: Modern Argentina. The eldorado of to-day, with notes on
+Uruguay and Chile.= By W. H. Koebel. Boston, Dana Estes & co., [1907].
+xv, 380 pp. 8ᵒ. 123 illus.
+
+    An account of modern society, politics and government, English
+    influence, agriculture and other industries, transportation,
+    and natural history, with a description in particular of
+    Buenos Aires, the mar del Plata, Mendoza, Valparaíso and parts
+    of Uruguay; it contains considerable information upon these
+    subjects, presented in the cumbersome style that characterizes
+    this author, with the inevitable bad Spanish.
+
+=Koebel, W. H.: Modern Chile.= By W. H. Koebel. With illustrations and
+map. London, G. Bell & sons, ltd., 1913. x, 273 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 1 map. 27
+illus.
+
+    An interesting and valuable record of travel and observations,
+    with the defects noted above.
+
+=Koebel, W. H.: Uruguay.= By W. H. Koebel, author of “Argentina, past and
+present,” “Portugal: its land and people,” etc. London and Leipsic, T.
+Fisher Unwin, MCMXI. 350 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 1 map. 55 illus.
+
+    A history of Uruguay, with emphasis upon the struggle for
+    independence, and less attention to the period the chief
+    actors in which are still living, with descriptions of cities,
+    scenery, rural life, social customs and natural resources;
+    worthy of a place among the books of discriminating people.
+
+=Larden, Walter: Argentine plains and Andine glaciers. Life on an
+estancia, and an expedition into the Andes.= By Walter Larden, M.A.,
+late lecturer at the Royal naval engineering college, Devenport, author
+of “Recollections of an old mountaineer.” With a map and ninety-one
+illustrations. New York, Charles Scribner’s sons; London, T. Fisher
+Unwin, 1911. 320 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 1 map. 91 illus.
+
+    In the main an unpretentious but interesting and useful account
+    of Argentine rural life; the author spent a good part of a year
+    upon an _estancia_, then he went back to England, and after a
+    lapse of twenty years, he returned to Argentina, and spent some
+    time upon the same estate; he thus had unusual opportunities
+    for observing the changes that had occurred; the illustrations
+    are of unusual merit.
+
+=[Larrazábal, Felipe]: Correspondencia general del libertador Simon
+Bolívar. Enriquecida con la insercion de los manifiestos, mensages,
+exposiciones, proclamas, etc., publicados por el heroe colombiano desde
+1810 hasta 1830.= (Precede á esta coleccion interesante la vida de
+Bolívar.) [By Felipe Larrazábal.] (In 2 vols. 8ᵒ.) New York, imprenta
+de Eduardo O. Jenkins, 1866. Tomo primero, xlii, 616 pp. front. Tomo
+segundo, 591 pp. front.
+
+    An essential source of information for the biographer and
+    historian.
+
+=Las Casas, Bartholomew de: A relation of the first voyages and
+discoveries made by the Spaniards in America. With an account of their
+unparallel’d cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above forty
+millions of people. Together with the propositions offer’d to the king of
+Spain, to prevent the future ruin of the West-Indies.= By don Bartolomew
+de las Casas, bishop of Chiapa who was an eye-witness of their cruelties.
+Illustrated with cuts. To which is added, The art of travelling, shewing
+how a man may dispose his travels to the best advantage. London, printed
+for Daniel Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-Bar, and
+Andrew Bell at the Croftskeys and Bible in Cornhil near Stocksmarket.
+1699. 249 pp. 12mo. 22 illus.
+
+    See comment on “Breuissima relacion de la destruccion de las
+    Indias” by _Las Casas, Bartolomé de_.
+
+=Las Casas, Bartolomé de: Breuissima relacion de la destruccion de las
+Indias.= Colegida por el Obispo dõ fray Bartolome de las Casas, o Casaus
+de la orden de Sãcto Domingo. [No imprint.] 1552. 742 pp.
+
+    The work of a pious and generous, but dogmatic and opinionated
+    special pleader, who, in his effort to befriend the Indians
+    by gaining for them the intervention and protection of the
+    crown, did more to calumniate and villify the memory of the
+    Spanish conquerors than all other early writers; interesting,
+    yet in general utterly untrustworthy; unfortunately this
+    book has served as a foundation for misconceptions that have
+    entered into the common thought of the successive generations,
+    particularly among peoples that have been inimical to Spain;
+    a study of it, in the light of easily obtainable contemporary
+    historical data, ought to lead to the reopening of the case
+    against the Spanish pioneers, and to a reversal of the judgment
+    of posterity.
+
+=Latané, John H.: The diplomatic relations of the United States and
+Spanish America. (Under caption: “The Albert Shaw lectures on diplomatic
+history, 1899.”)= By John H. Latané, Ph.D., professor of history in
+Randolph-Macon woman’s college. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins press, 1900.
+294 pp. 12mo.
+
+    The following subjects are discussed: the Spanish-American
+    revolt; the part played by the United States and England in
+    founding the Spanish-American republics; the diplomacy of the
+    United States in regard to Cuba; the proposed Central American
+    canal; French intervention in México; the present status of the
+    Monroe doctrine; a valuable contribution, well presented and
+    properly documented.
+
+=Lea, Henry Charles: The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies.
+Sicily—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New Granada.= By Henry
+Charles Lea, LL.D., S.T.D. New York, The Macmillan Co.; London, Macmillan
+& co., ltd., 1908. xvi, 564 pp. 8ᵒ.
+
+    A thorough and abundantly documented study.
+
+=Léger, J. N.: Haiti, her history and her detractors.= By J. N. Léger,
+envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Haiti in the United
+States. New York and Washington, The Neale publishing co., 1907. 372 pp.
+8ᵒ. front. 14 illus.
+
+    Abundantly documented, and not to be overlooked by any student
+    of the subject, although unavoidably what it is in reality, a
+    plea.
+
+=León, Nicolás: Data about a new kind of hieroglyphical writing in
+Mexico.= By Nicolás León. (In proceedings of the international
+congress of American history, 13th session, New York, 1902.) [Easton,
+Pennsylvania, Eschenbach printing co., 1905.] pp. 175-188. 8ᵒ.
+
+    An extremely valuable grouping of the materials, made by a
+    book-loving enthusiast.
+
+=Lewandowski, Maurice: The Argentine in the twentieth century.= (See
+_Martínez, Albert B._)
+
+=Lidstone, William: Fifteen thousand miles on the Amazon and its
+tributaries.= (See _Brown, C. Barrington_.)
+
+=Lindsay, Forbes: Cuba and her people of to-day. An account of the
+history and progress of the island previous to its independence; a
+description of its physical features; a study of its people; and, in
+particular, an examination of its present political conditions, its
+industries, natural resources and prospects; together with information
+and suggestions designed to aid the prospective investor or settler.= By
+Forbes Lindsay, author of “Panama and the canal,” etc. Illustrated from
+original and selected photographs by the author. Boston, L. C. Page,
+MDCCCCXI. xii, 329 pp. 12mo. front. 2 maps. 47 illus.
+
+    After a chapter on geography and three chapters on history,
+    there follows a description of the people, the resources and
+    the industries, as they were at date of authorship, with
+    appendixes that give the commercial convention between the
+    United States and Cuba, proclaimed December 17, 1903, the
+    treaty, approved March 2, 1901, financial and commercial
+    statistics, a list of railways and a bibliography; useful.
+
+=Lindsay, Forbes: Panama and the canal to-day. An historical account
+of the canal project from the earliest times with special references
+to the enterprises of the French company and the United States, with
+a detailed description of the waterway as it will be ultimately
+constructed; together with a brief history of the country and the first
+comprehensive account of its physical features and natural resources.= By
+Forbes Lindsay, author of “Panama, the isthmus and the canal,” etc. With
+fifty-three illustrations from recent photographs, and five maps. Boston,
+L. C. Page & co., MDCCCCX. xiii, 433 pp. 12mo. front. 5 maps. 53 illus.
+
+    Some chapters on the history of the Isthmus in the days of
+    the adventurers; an account of former efforts to construct
+    a canal, from the time of the emperor Charles V to that of
+    President Taft; a description of agricultural resources; at the
+    end a bibliography of books, magazine articles and reports,
+    from which the narratives of the Spanish days are omitted; an
+    interesting and profitable work.
+
+=Logan, Cornelius A., and Calderón, Francisco García: Mediación de los
+Estados Unidos de Norte América en la guerra del Pacífico.= El senor
+doctor don Cornelius A. Logan y el Dr. D. Francisco García Calderón.
+Buenos Aires, imprenta y librería de Mayo, 1884. 168[2] pp. 12mo.
+
+    An important collection of state papers relating to the war
+    between Chile and Perú, with a large sheet fac-simile of the
+    protocol celebrated between the provisional president of Perú
+    and the minister of the United States.
+
+=López, Felicísimo: Atlas geográfico del Ecuador, arreglado según la
+carta del Dr. Teodoro Wolf.= Por Felicísimo López. 1907. 4ᵒ. [17 maps. 40
+pp.]
+
+    A series of useful maps, with statistical details regarding
+    each of the provinces.
+
+=Lorente, Sebastián: Historia antigua del Perú.= Por Sebastián Lorente.
+Lima, (no publisher’s name), 1860. 341 pp. 12mo.
+
+    Well written, in the popular style, with a description of the
+    country, the Inca “empire,” and the civilization of Perú under
+    the Incas; without documentation; finely printed.
+
+=Lozano, P. Pedro: Historia de la conquista del Paraguay, Rio de la Plata
+y Tucuman.= Escrita per el P. Pedro Lozano de la compañia de Jesus.
+Ilustrada con noticias del autor y con notas y suplementos por Andres
+Lamas. (In 5 vols. 12mo.) Buenos Aires, casa editora “Imprenta popular.”
+Vol. I, 1873. cxlviii, 468 pp. Vol. II, 1873. 396 pp. Vol. III, 1874. 570
+pp. Vol. IV, 1874. 489 pp. Vol. V, 1875. 364 pp.
+
+    Worthy of consideration; fairly well documented; the spelling
+    and printing are bad.
+
+=Lumholtz, Carl [Karl Sophus]: New trails in Mexico. An account of one
+year’s exploration in north-western Sonora, Mexico, and south-western
+Arizona, 1909-1910.= By Carl [Karl Sophus] Lumholtz, M.A., member of the
+society of sciences of Christiania, etc. With numerous illustrations
+including two colored plates and two maps. New York, Charles Scribner’s
+sons, 1912. xxv, 411 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 2 maps. 116 illus.
+
+    Similar but not equal to “Unknown Mexico;” verbose and given to
+    magnifying the details of travel; the author overlooked readily
+    accessible original documents; it contains some valuable maps
+    which cover the extreme northwest corner of México.
+
+=Lumholtz, Carl [Karl Sophus]: Unknown Mexico. A record of five years’
+exploration among the tribes of the western Sierra Madre; in the Tierra
+Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and among the Tarascos of Michoacan.= By
+Carl [Karl Sophus] Lumholtz, M.A., member of the society of sciences
+of Norway; associé étranger de la société de l’Anthropologie de Paris;
+author of “Among cannibals,” etc. Illustrated. (In 2 vols. 8ᵒ.) New York,
+Charles Scribner’s sons, 1902. Vol. I. xxxii, 530 pp. front. 1 map. 203
+illus. 6 colored plts. Vol. II. xv, 496 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 212 illus. 9
+colored plts.
+
+    It may be regarded as a distinct contribution to science,
+    albeit disappointing, in view of the exceptional opportunities
+    which the author had and which he seems not to have used to
+    the best advantage; diffuse and discursive; inclined to assume
+    the possession of too thorough a knowledge of the contents of
+    primitive minds, and to generalize upon too limited data; the
+    discriminating reader receives the impression that this work
+    is padded with an account of unimportant details regarding the
+    explorer’s daily life.
+
+=Lummis, Charles F[letcher]: The awakening of a nation. Mexico of
+to-day.= By C. F[letcher] Lummis. Profusely illustrated. New York, Harper
+& bros., 1899. xi, 179 pp. 12mo. front. 1 map. 57 illus.
+
+    Fulsomely laudatory of the late president Díaz, although as
+    an offset to the condemnation of him which is now general,
+    it serves a good purpose; the pages on the beginning of the
+    literary development are instructive; in general, it is
+    superficial and trivial; scant reference is made to sources of
+    information.
+
+=Macdonald, Alexander K.: Picturesque Paraguay. Sport, pioneering,
+travel. A land of promise. Stock-raising, plantation industries, forest
+products, commercial possibilities.= By Alexander K. Macdonald. London,
+Charles H. Kelly, [1911]. 498 pp. 8ᵒ. 64 illus.
+
+    The author confesses that he “has purposely departed from
+    time-honored traditions, and publishes a series of loosely
+    connected sketches covering a period of fifteen years’ sport
+    and pioneering in Paraguay;” this is a proper characterization;
+    the illustrations, which are reproductions of photographs, are
+    particularly good; chapters XXIV and XXIX, on how to keep well
+    in hot countries, are to be commended.
+
+=MacHugh, R. J.: Modern Mexico.= By R. J. MacHugh. With illustrations
+from photographs, a map, and an appendix containing the full text of the
+Mexican constitution. London, Methuen & co., ltd., [1913]. viii, 342 pp.
+8ᵒ. front. 1 map. 20 illus.
+
+    Nine-tenths of this book is devoted to history, physiography,
+    government, industries and commerce, subjects that might well
+    have been omitted, since they have already been adequately
+    treated many times; the remainder, containing the author’s
+    really valuable observations and opinions, would have made an
+    interesting and instructive magazine article.
+
+=Maeso, Justo: Los primeros patriotas orientales de 1811. Expontaneidad
+de la insurreccion oriental contra la España en la guerra de la
+independencia americana.= Por Justo Maeso, ex-director de la oficina
+de estadistica de Buenos Aires, etc. Montevideo, imprenta á vapor y
+encuadernacion de el Laurak Bat., 1888. 248 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph.
+
+    It contains considerable historical material in the form of
+    minutes and letters.
+
+=Markham, Clements R[obert]: A history of Peru.= By Clements R[obert]
+Markham, author of “Cuzco and Lima,” “Peru and India,” “War between Chile
+and Peru,” etc. Chicago, Charles H. Sergel & co., MDCCCXCII. xvi, 556 pp.
+8ᵒ. front. 5 maps. 24 illus.
+
+    One of the best written and most reliable of the histories,
+    although without documentation; all periods are given a proper
+    emphasis; it will serve both the student and the general
+    reader; the appendix contains the political constitution and a
+    brief bibliography.
+
+=Markham, Clements R[obert]: Cuzco: a journey to the ancient capital
+of Peru; with an account of the history, language, literature, and
+antiquities of the Incas. And Lima: a visit to the capital and provinces
+of modern Peru; with a sketch of the viceregal government, history of
+the republic, and a review of the literature and society of Peru. With
+illustrations and a map.= By Clements R[obert] Markham, F.R.G.S., author
+of “Franklin’s footsteps.” London, Chapman & Hall, 1856. iv, 419 pp.
+12mo. front. 1 map. 7 illus. in colors.
+
+    Of considerable value, although marred by faults of diction,
+    a lack of thorough documentation, and a too ready acceptance
+    of sources of information which have since been proven to be
+    untrustworthy.
+
+=Markham, Clements R[obert]: Narratives of the rites and laws of the
+Yncas. Translated from the original Spanish manuscripts, and edited, with
+notes and an introduction.= By Clements R[obert] Markham, C.B., F.R.S.
+London, printed for the Hakluyt society, MDCCCLXXIII. xx, 220[12] pp.
+12mo.
+
+    A necessary part of the serious student’s equipment for the
+    study of history.
+
+=Markham, _Sir_ Clements: The conquest of New Granada.= By _Sir_ Clements
+Markham, K.C.B., D.Sc. (Cam.), honorary member of the Historical society
+of Antioquia. With a map. London, Smith, Elder & co., 1912. xvii, 232
+pp. 12mo. 1 map.
+
+    An interesting account of Chibcha civilization; the story of
+    the conquest of New Granada, satisfactorily documented, with
+    special attention to the discoverer Jiménez de Quesada; and an
+    appendix containing a translation of the Duquesne memoir on the
+    Chibcha calendar, and other important material.
+
+=Markham, _Sir_ Clements: The Incas of Peru.= By _Sir_ Clements Markham,
+K.C.B., D.Sc. (Camb.), F.R.S., F.R.G.S., F.S.A., corresponding member of
+the Royal academy of history at Madrid and of the geographical societies
+of Peru and Bolivia. With 16 illustrations and a map. London, Smith,
+Elder & co., 1910. xvi, 443 pp. 12mo. front. 1 map. 16 illus.
+
+    While of unquestionable importance and value, owing to the
+    vast experience and erudition of its author, this work has two
+    serious weaknesses, not to mention infelicities of orthography
+    and style: a lack of accurate documentation, and the failure
+    to take into account the knowledge acquired by means of recent
+    archæological investigation.
+
+=Markham, Clements R[obert]: The war between Peru and Chile, 1879-1882.=
+By Clements R[obert] Markham, C.B., F.R.S. Third edition. London,
+Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. x, 306 pp. 12mo. 4 maps.
+
+    Readable and generally reliable; only slightly documented;
+    marred by infelicities of style and inaccuracy and
+    inconsistency in spelling.
+
+=Marmontel [Jean François]: Los incas, ó la destruccion del imperio del
+Perú.= Por [Jean François] Marmontel; traducida por la primera vez
+al castellano, por don F. de Cabello, antiguo oficial-general, _etc._
+Edicion hecha bajo la direccion de J. R. Masson. (In 2 vols, bound
+together. 16ᵒ.) Paris, Masson e hijo, 1882. Vol. I. xxxviii, 251 pp. 6
+illus. Vol. II. 288 pp. 5 illus.
+
+    Although based upon the romantic and uncritical method of a
+    hundred years ago, it is not without value as an illustration
+    of the path by which we have come to our present state of
+    knowledge; there are occasional references to authorities.
+
+=Martin, Percy F.: Maximilian in Mexico. The story of the French
+intervention (1861-1867).= By Percy F. Martin, F.R.G.S., author of
+“Through five republics of South America,” “Mexico’s treasure-house,”
+“Mexico of the twentieth century,” “Peru of the twentieth century,”
+“Salvador of the twentieth century,” “Greece of the twentieth century,”
+etc. New York, Charles Scribner’s sons, 1914. xvi, 480 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 52
+illus.
+
+    A promising title and a bulky, well printed book; yet, because
+    the author has attempted to write too many books, or because
+    of some inherent inability, he has produced a work which,
+    although not wholly useless, is a disappointment, owing to its
+    heedlessness of facts and inaccuracy of form; why one who had
+    ample opportunity to know better should blunder so persistently
+    in his Spanish excerpts is incomprehensible.
+
+=Martin, Percy F.: Mexico of the twentieth century.= By Percy F. Martin,
+F.R.G.S., author of “Through five republics of South America,” “Mexico’s
+treasure-house,” etc. In two volumes. London, Edward Arnold, 1907. Vol.
+I. xxii, 323 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 1 map. 49 illus. Vol. II. xiv, 329 pp. 8ᵒ.
+front. 1 map. 59 illus.
+
+    A serious and only partially successful effort to cover the
+    field of geography, history, political organization, industry,
+    commerce and social customs, with a detailed account of each
+    of the several states; often inaccurate and misleading;
+    inexcusable liberties are taken with the orthography of
+    the Spanish words introduced; the only foot-notes contain
+    references to the author’s own works.
+
+=Martin, Percy F.: Salvador of the twentieth century.= By Percy F.
+Martin, F.R.G.S., author of “Through five republics of South America,”
+“Mexico of the twentieth century,” “Peru of the twentieth century,” etc.
+London, Edward Arnold, 1911. xvi, 329 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 2 maps. 47 illus.
+
+    Probably the best work on the geography, history, industries
+    and commerce, although awkwardly arranged, and without
+    documentation.
+
+=Martin, Percy F.: Through five republics of South America. A critical
+description of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela in 1905.=
+By Percy F. Martin, F.R.G.S. With 128 illustrations and 3 maps. London,
+William Heinemann, 1906. xxiv, 487 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 3 maps. 128 illus.
+
+    The first effort of an incorrigible traveler and writer; dull
+    and superficial, yet not without interest, if one forgives the
+    persistent misspelling of Spanish words, a too lofty attitude
+    toward the people who are being judged, and an ignoring
+    of nature; the main value is to be found in the masses of
+    statistical information given respecting agriculture, commerce,
+    banking and means of transportation.
+
+=Martínez, Albert B.: Baedeker of the Argentine republic.= By Albert
+B. Martínez. Including also parts of Brazil, the republic of Uruguay,
+Chile, and Bolivia. With maps and plates of the Argentine republic, of
+the town of Buenos Aires, of Montevideo, of Rosario, of the railway
+lines, and numerous illustrations. Fourth edition. Barcelona, R. Sopena,
+1914. 479 pp. 12mo. 8 maps and plans. 179 illus.
+
+    Like the Baedekers in general, this volume contains much
+    information as to localities, history, and statistics;
+    curiously enough, although it gives the route from half a dozen
+    or so European ports to Buenos Aires, it gives none from any
+    part of the United States; naturally, it is of great value to
+    the traveler.
+
+=Martínez, Albert B., and Lewandowski, Maurice: The Argentine in the
+twentieth century.= By Albert B. Martínez, under-secretary of state, and
+Maurice Lewandowski, doctor in law. London and Leipsic, T. Fisher Unwin,
+1911. xi, 376 pp. 8ᵒ. 1 map.
+
+    An excessively bad translation of a valuable work which deals,
+    as the title indicates, with present conditions, and supplies
+    a vast array of statistical information tending to show the
+    astonishingly rapid material development of the country: the
+    glaring statistical inaccuracies which occur in the translation
+    do not exist in the original.
+
+=Mason, _Lieutenant_ Theodorus B. M.: The war of the Pacific coast of
+South America between Chile and the allied republics of Perú and Bolivia,
+1879-’81.= By _Lieutenant_ Theodorus B. M. Mason, United States navy.
+Washington, office of naval intelligence, bureau of navigation, navy
+department, 1883. Government printing office, 1883. 77 [1] pp. 8ᵒ.
+
+    A naïve, garrulous, baldly technical narrative; undocumented
+    yet valuable for details of a struggle the natural results of
+    which are still apparent.
+
+=Matthews, Franklin: The new-born Cuba.= By Franklin Matthews.
+Illustrated. New York and London, Harper & bros., 1899. xii, 388 [3] pp.
+12mo. front. 107 illus.
+
+    A reportorial gyration around the forces of the American
+    occupation, with occasional excursions into sugar and tobacco;
+    negligible.
+
+=Mead, Charles W.: Peruvian mummies, and what they teach. A guide to
+exhibits in the Peruvian hall.= By Charles W. Mead, department of
+ethnology. No. 24 of the guide leaflet series of the American museum of
+natural history, etc. New York, published by the Museum, 1907. 24 pp.
+pamph. 8ᵒ. front. 5 plts. 3 illus. in text.
+
+    A proper descriptive guide, with a brief historical sketch.
+
+=Medina, José Toribio: Descubrimiento del río de las Amazonas. Según
+la relación, hasta ahora inédita de Fr. Caspar de Carvajal, con otros
+documentos referentes a Francisco de Orellana y sus compañeros.
+Publicados a expensas del exmo. sr. duque de T’Serclaes de Tilly. Con
+una introducción histórica y algunas ilustraciones.= Por José Toribio
+Medina, de la academia Chilena, correspondiente de las reales academias
+de la lengua y de la historia, de la de buenas letras de Sevilla y del
+instituto geográfico Argentino. Sevilla, imprenta de E. Rasco, MDCCCXCIV.
+ccxxxix, 278 pp. 8ᵒ.
+
+    Invaluable for those who wish to consult “original documents.”
+
+=Menéndez y Pelayo, M[arcelino]: Antología de poetas hispano-americanos.=
+[By Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo.] Publicada por la Real academia
+Española. (In 4 vols. 8ᵒ.) Madrid, est. tipográfico “Sucesores de
+Rivadeneyra,” 1893. Tomo I. México y América Central. clxxxii, 397 pp.
+Tomo II. Cuba, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, Venezuela. clxxxviii, 631 [1]
+pp. Tomo III. Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia. ccxviii, 480 pp. Tomo IV.
+Chile, República Argentina, Uruguay. ccxviii, 480 pp.
+
+    Selections of verse from authors not then living, made with
+    rare discrimination by the greatest Spanish critic of his
+    period, with excellent biographical and critical notes; beyond
+    praise for the student who is interested in the extensive
+    poetical literature of Spanish America.
+
+=Mexico: General descriptive data prepared in June, 1909.= By the
+International bureau of American republics. Washington, D.C., Government
+printing office, 1909. 33 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph. 1 chart. 8 illus.
+
+    See comment on the similar pamphlet: “Argentine republic, the:
+    General descriptive data,” etc.
+
+=Mitre, Bartolomé: Historia de Belgrano y de la independencia argentina.=
+Por Bartolomé Mitre. Cuarta y definitiva edición, corregida y aumentada.
+(In 3 vols. 8ᵒ.) Buenos Aires, 1887. Tomo I. xliii, 608 pp. front. Tomo
+II. 815 pp. front. Tomo III. 806 pp. front.
+
+    Well written and thoroughly documented; a work of supreme
+    importance for the historian.
+
+=Mitre, Bartolomé: The emancipation of South America, being a condensed
+translation by William Pilling of the history of San Martín.= By general
+don Bartolomé Mitre, first constitutional president of the Argentine
+republic. London, Chapman & Hall, 1893. xxviii, 499 pp. 8ᵒ.
+
+    The translator has wisely omitted details which interested
+    the biographer but are of little importance to the historian,
+    and “the translation is thus a history in which enter the
+    biographies of the two principal personages, San Martín and
+    Bolívar,” to quote his words. The original is a standard
+    biography; while the translation is not wholly satisfactory, it
+    supplies the uncritical student who has no command of Spanish
+    with valuable historical and biographical material.
+
+=Moore, John Bassett: Brazil and Perú boundary question.= By John Bassett
+Moore. New York, The Knickerbocker press, [1904]. 32 pp. pamph. 8ᵒ. 1 map.
+
+    A clearly written, properly noted and necessary document.
+
+=Morla Vicuña, Carlos: Estudio histórico sobre el descubrimiento y
+conquista de la Patagonia y de la Tierra del Fuego.= Por Carlos Morla
+Vicuña. Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1903. v, 223 pp. 1 map. 8 illus.
+
+    A serious and valuable study of the early history and of
+    the boundaries of the territory comprised within Patagonia,
+    Tierra del Fuego and the straits of Magallanes, with a view to
+    ascertaining the facts, in order to settle the disputes between
+    the republics of Argentina and Chile, as to their titles to
+    the austral extremity of South America, with copious notes and
+    citations from original sources.
+
+=Mortillet, Adrien de: Bronze in South America before the arrival of the
+Europeans.= By Adrien de Mortillet, honorary president of the Société
+préhistorique de France. Annual report of the Smithsonian institution,
+1907. pp. 261-266. 8ᵒ.
+
+    A convincing paper intended to prove the use of bronze in South
+    America before the conquest, by means of the chemical analysis
+    of pre-Columbian implements collected from several regions.
+
+=Moses, Bernard: The Spanish dependencies in South America. An
+introduction to the history of their civilization.= By Bernard Moses,
+Ph.D., LL.D., professor in the university of California, honorary
+professor in the university of Chile. (In 2 vols. 8ᵒ.) New York and
+London, Harper & bros., 1914. Vol. I. xxvi, 394 pp. Vol. II. ix, 444 pp.
+
+    In general it is a satisfactorily documented work; if one
+    pardons inexcusable inconsistencies in the orthography of the
+    names and other Spanish words introduced, and an occasional
+    historical inaccuracy, he will probably conclude that, all
+    things considered, this is the best general history of South
+    America during the period treated, that is, 1550-1730.
+
+=Mozans, H. J.: Along the Andes and down the Amazon.= (Under caption:
+“Following the conquistadores.”) By H. J. Mozans, A.M., Ph.D., author of
+“Up the Orinoco and down the Magdalena.” With an introduction by Colonel
+Theodore Roosevelt. Illustrated. New York and London, D. Appleton & co.,
+1911. xx, 542 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 29 illus.
+
+    A continuation of “Up the Orinoco and down the Magdalena;”
+    a journey from Panamá to Guayaquil, thence through Ecuador,
+    Bolivia, Perú, and across the Andes and down the Amazon;
+    an agreeable and intelligent narrative of observations and
+    experiences, and much moralizing, and no little quotation of
+    poetry in English, Italian and Spanish.
+
+=Mozans, H. J.: Up the Orinoco and down the Magdalena.= (Under
+caption: “Following the conquistadores.”) By H. J. Mozans, A.M., Ph.D.
+Illustrated. New York and London, D. Appleton & co., 1910. xiii, 439 pp.
+8ᵒ. front. 18 illus.
+
+    A naïve and charming account of a trip through Colombia
+    and Venezuela, with fragments of history suggested by the
+    surroundings, and abundant footnotes, written by a keen and
+    genial observer, much given to mingling bits of English,
+    Spanish and Latin verse with his prose; the illustrations are
+    excellent.
+
+=Müller y Tejeiro, José: Combates y capitulación de Santiago de Cuba.=
+Por D. José Müller y Tejeiro, segundo comandante de Marina, de la
+provincia de Santiago de Cuba. Madrid, Felipe Marqués, 1898. 278 pp. 8ᵒ.
+2 maps.
+
+    An interesting contribution to the history of the war between
+    Spain and the United States, written from the Spanish point of
+    view by a participant in the struggle, who, although markedly
+    biased, unfair and sometimes ridiculously purblind, displayed
+    not more ignorance or prejudice than some authors who have
+    written from our standpoint.
+
+=Nicaragua: General descriptive data prepared in June, 1909.= By the
+International bureau of American republics. Washington, D.C., Government
+printing office, 1909. 14 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph. 1 chart. 4 illus.
+
+    See comment on the similar pamphlet: “Argentine republic, the:
+    General descriptive data,” etc.
+
+=Noll, Arthur Howard: From empire to republic. The story of the struggle
+for constitutional government in Mexico.= By Arthur Howard Noll, author
+of “A short history of Mexico,” “Tenochtitlan,” etc. With map and
+portraits. Chicago, A. C. McClurg & co., 1903. x, 336 pp. 12mo. front. 1
+map.
+
+    Although not documented, a good brief account, devoted in the
+    main to the period succeeding the beginning of the struggle
+    for independence; appendix A contains a valuable chronological
+    summary of principal events; appendix B, a bibliography.
+
+=Oakenfull, J. C.: Brazil in 1912.= By J. C. Oakenfull. London, Robert
+Atkinson, ltd., 1913. 498 pp. 16mo. 1 map. 1 plt. in colors. 3 charts.
+102 illus.
+
+    A guide-book which gives much valuable data regarding the
+    present state of things, mostly industrial and commercial,
+    with brief excursions into history, geography, mineralogy and
+    geology.
+
+=Orozco y Berra, Manuel: Historia antigua y de la conquista de México.=
+Por el Lic. Manuel Orozco y Berra, vice-presidente de la sociedad de
+Geografía y Estadística, etc. (In 4 vols. 8ᵒ.) México, tipografía de
+Gonzalo A. Esteva, 1880. Tomo primero, ix, 584 pp. Tomo segundo, 603 pp.
+Tomo tercero, 527 pp. Tomo cuarto, 694 pp.
+
+    A fundamentally important and thoroughly documented work to
+    which every writer upon Mexican history must have recourse.
+
+=Ortega, José: Historia del Nayarit, Sonora, Sinaloa y ambas Californias,
+que con el título de “Apostólicos afanes de la compañía de Jesús en la
+América septentrional” se publicó anóima en Barcelona el año de 1754.=
+Siendo su autor el padre José Ortega. Nueva edición aumentada con un
+prólogo escrito por el Sr. Lic. Manuel de Olaguibel. México, tipografía
+de E. Abadiano, 1887. ix, 564, (vi) pp. 12mo.
+
+    A quaint, sagacious and picturesque narrative of travel and
+    residence among the Indians of the most rugged and isolated
+    regions of the country; of surpassing interest and value to the
+    historian and anthropologist.
+
+=Osborn, Chase S.: The Andean land (South America).= By Chase S. Osborn,
+member of the board of regents of the university of Michigan. With over
+fifty illustrations and four maps. (In 2 vols. 8ᵒ.) Chicago, A. C.
+McClurg & co., 1909. Vol. I. xv, 312 pp. front. 3 maps. 23 illus. Vol.
+II. x, 331 pp. front. 1 map. 27 illus.
+
+    A narrative of travel through the countries of South America,
+    with desultory excursions into history, recounted in a
+    heavy, dogmatic style, lacking both tone and elegance, with
+    disturbingly minute attention to uninteresting details, and the
+    frequent introduction of impossible Spanish; careful gleaning,
+    however, will yield a few grains of valuable knowledge; the
+    appendix to the first volume contains an interesting collection
+    of Spanish and Spanish-American proverbs.
+
+=Palmer, Frederick: Central America and its problems. An account of a
+journey from the Rio Grande to Panama, with introductory chapters on
+Mexico and her relations to her neighbors.= By Frederick Palmer, F.R.G.S.
+New York, Moffat, Yard & co., 1910. xiv, 345 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 1 map. 35
+illus.
+
+    In view of the scarcity of books in English regarding the
+    countries of Central America it may be that this work has some
+    slight value, although analysis fails to disclose wherein it
+    exists: it is neither accurate, sympathetic, systematic, well
+    written, nor even interesting; its characterizations of men and
+    events are puerile, and its generalizations are illogical and
+    absurd, while in general it is an insult to the people about
+    whom it was written, as well as to the intelligence of those by
+    whom it was intended to be read.
+
+=Paraguay: General descriptive data prepared in June, 1909.= By the
+International bureau of American republics. Washington, D.C., Government
+printing office, 1909. 13 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph. 3 illus.
+
+    See comment on the similar pamphlet: “Argentine republic, the:
+    General descriptive data,” etc.
+
+=Paxson, Frederic L.: The independence of the South American republics. A
+study in recognition and foreign policy.= By Frederic L. Paxson, fellow
+in history in the university of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Ferris &
+Leach, 1903. 264 pp. 12mo.
+
+    A clear, serious, scholarly review of our international
+    relations, with special reference to the countries which lie to
+    the southward, with ample references to authorities; worthy of
+    extended attention.
+
+=Peck, Annie S.: A search for the apex of America. High mountain climbing
+in Peru and Bolivia, including the conquest of Huascaran with some
+observations on the country and people below.= By Annie S. Peck, M.A.
+With numerous illustrations. New York, Dodd, Mead & co., 1911. xii, 370
+pp. 8ᵒ. front. 1 map. 124 illus.
+
+    A narrative of personal hopes and adventures rather than of
+    scientific investigations, the main feature of which was the
+    ascent of the north peak of Huascarán, in the Peruvian Andes.
+
+=Peck, Annie S.: The South American tour.= By Annie S. Peck, M.A., author
+of “A search for the apex of America.” New York, George H. Doran co.,
+1913. xviii, 398 pp. 8ᵒ. 1 map. 87 illus.
+
+    Patently a superficial and fragmentary guide-book; an account
+    of travel through Panamá, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia, Chile,
+    Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil; well illustrated,
+    statistical, useful, especially to the traveler; a brief
+    bibliography at the end.
+
+=Peixotto, Ernest [Clifford]: Pacific shores from Panama.= By Ernest
+[Clifford] Peixotto. Illustrated by the author. New York, Charles
+Scribner’s sons, MCMXIII. xiv, 285 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 79 illus.
+
+    A general account of travel, being the description of a trip
+    from New York, through the Caribbean sea to Panamá, and thence
+    to Perú and Bolivia; written in the breezy manner of the
+    modern “best seller;” withal entertaining; the illustrations,
+    consisting of reproductions of photographs and drawings, are
+    worthy of attention.
+
+=Pennington, A. Stuart: The Argentine republic, its physical features,
+history, fauna, flora, geology, literature and commerce.= By A. Stuart
+Pennington, author of “British zoophytes,” “La langosta Argentina,” etc.
+With illustrations and map. London, Stanley Paul & co., [1910]; New York,
+F. A. Stokes & co. 352 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 30 illus.
+
+    A valuable accumulation of information, based upon
+    conscientious research, and a personal acquaintance extending
+    over many years; without documentation.
+
+=Pepper, Charles M.: Panamá to Patagonia. The Isthmian canal and the
+west coast countries of South America.= By Charles M. Pepper, author of
+“To-morrow in Cuba.” New York, Young people’s missionary movement of the
+United States and Canada, [1906]. xx [i], 398 [1] pp. 8ᵒ. 4 maps. 50
+illus.
+
+    In the preface the author indicates that his volume is “to
+    be limited more strictly to industrial, fiscal and political
+    information,” and, with this in mind, he gives an excellent
+    account of the countries of the west coast, and suggests the
+    possible effects of the Panamá canal upon them; the style
+    is easy, vigorous and sometimes picturesque; there are no
+    statements as to the sources of information; the illustrations
+    are well chosen and admirably executed.
+
+=Peralta, D. Manuel M. de: Costa Rica y costa de mosquitos. Documentos
+para la historia de la jurisdicción territorial de Costa Rica y
+Columbia.= Publicados por D. Manuel M. de Peralta, enviado extraordinario
+y ministro plenipotenciario de Costa Rica. Paris, 1898. iii, 566 pp. 8ᵒ.
+
+    Of importance to the historian who may be interested in the
+    study of the boundaries of Costa Rica and Colombia.
+
+=Petre, F[rancis] Loraine: The republic of Colombia. An account of the
+country, its people, its institutions and its resources.= By F[rancis]
+Loraine Petre, author of “Napoleon’s campaign in Poland, 1806-1807.” With
+numerous illustrations and a map. London, Edward Stanford, 1906. x, 346
+pp. 8ᵒ. front. 1 map. 36 illus.
+
+    An undocumented but readable and interesting sketch, covering
+    geography, history, political constitution, population,
+    industries, means of communication and commerce; while not so
+    well done as this author’s work on Bolívar, it is worthy of
+    consideration.
+
+=Petre, F[rancis] Loraine: Simon Bolivar, “El libertador.” A life of the
+chief leader in the revolt against Spain in Venezuela, New Granada and
+Peru.= By F[rancis] Loraine Petre. With a photogravure frontispiece and a
+map. London and New York, John Lane co., MCMX. xiii, 459 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 1
+map. 2 illus.
+
+    A standard work, well written and documented; worthy of the
+    attention of serious students, and capable of being enjoyed by
+    all; with a bibliography at the beginning.
+
+=Phillips, P. Lee: A list of books, magazine articles, and maps relating
+to Brazil, 1800-1900.= Prepared by P. Lee Phillips, F.R.G.S., chief
+of division of maps and charts, library of Congress. A supplement of
+the Handbook of Brazil (1901) compiled by the bureau of the American
+republics. Washington, Government printing office, 1901. 8ᵒ. 145 pp.
+
+    About 1500 titles are listed.
+
+=Pimentel, Francisco: Cuadro descriptivo y comparativo de las lenguas
+indígenas de México.= Por D. Francisco Pimentel, socio de número de la
+sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística. (In 2 vols. 12mo.) México,
+imprenta de Andrade y Escalante, 1862. Vol. I. lii, 539 pp. Vol. II. vi,
+427 pp.
+
+    In the first volume the following languages are discussed:
+    Huaxteco; Mixteco; Mame or Zaklohpakap; Othomí or Hiahiu;
+    Mexicano, Nahuatl or Azteca; Totonaco; Tarasco; Zapoteco;
+    Tarahumar; Opata or Teguima; Cahita; Matlatzinca or Pirinda; in
+    the second volume, Yucateco or Maya; Tepehuán; Cora, Chora or
+    Chota; Pima or Névome; Quiché, Cachiquel and Zutuhil; Eudeva,
+    Heve or Dohema; Mixe; Mazahua or Mazahui; Guaicura or Vaicura;
+    Cochimí and Laimón; Chañabal, Chiapaneco, Chol, Tzendal, Zoque
+    Tzotzil; Joba, Lipán, Papago and Tubar; Cuicateco, Mazateco,
+    Chuchon; Pame and Serrano; and in the appendix, Comanche;
+    Mutsún; Tatché or Telamé; Tejano or Coahuilteco; and certain
+    languages of Lower California; scholarly and of very great
+    value to the student.
+
+=Post, Charles Johnson: Across the Andes.= By Charles Johnson Post. A
+tale of wandering days among the mountains of Bolivia and the jungles of
+the upper Amazon. Illustrated by the author. New York, Outing publishing
+co., MCMXII. 362 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 55 illus.
+
+    An unpretentious book of interesting travel, unmarred by the
+    usual interjection of useless bits of history.
+
+=Prescott, William H.: History of the conquest of Mexico, with a
+preliminary view of the ancient Mexican civilization and life of the
+conqueror, Hernando Cortés.= By William H. Prescott, author of the
+“History of Ferdinand and Isabella.” (In 3 vols. 8ᵒ.) New York, Harper
+& bros., MDCCCXLIII. Vol. I. xxxiv, 488 pp. front. 1 map. 4 illus. Vol.
+II. xviii, 430 pp. front. 1 map. Vol. III. xvii, 524 pp. front. 1 plt. 1
+illus.
+
+    One of the classics of North American literature, which, in
+    spite of its numerous errors in statements of facts and its
+    many misconceptions, all of which are made clear by the later
+    accumulations of knowledge, still remains the most entertaining
+    and interesting work in English regarding the conquest of
+    México; it is a reproach to those who have lived since the time
+    of this distinguished author that none has been able to use the
+    manifold opportunities afforded by a greatly increased original
+    literature, and ample facilities for local investigation, to
+    produce a history of the period that would surpass or even
+    rival this great production.
+
+=Prescott, William H.: History of the conquest of Peru, with a
+preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas.= By William H.
+Prescott, corresponding member of the French institute, of the royal
+academy of history at Madrid, etc. In two volumes. New York, Harper &
+bros., MDCCCXLVII. Vol. I. xxxvii, 527 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 1 map. Vol. II.
+xix, 547 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 1 plt.
+
+    Too well known to need characterization; after making full
+    allowance for recognized imperfections, it will always remain
+    one of the classics of this literature.
+
+=Prida, Ramón: De la dictadura a la anarquia. Apuntes para la historia
+política de Mexico durante los últimos cuarenta y tres años.= Por Ramon
+Prida, miembro del ilustre y nacional colegio de Abogados de Mexico,
+ex-juez de primera instancia en el puerto de Veracruz. (In 2 vols. 12mo.)
+El Paso, Texas, imprenta de “El Paso del Norte,” 1914. Vol. I. 365 pp.
+Vol. II. 364 pp.
+
+    A political work, whose motive was to give the history and the
+    defense of the so-called “partido científico,” to which the
+    author belonged, and regarding which he was well informed, as
+    it was his province to lurk behind the scenes and watch the
+    course of events; it traces the decline of the Díaz régime,
+    and reveals the secret jealousies and machinations that in
+    part account for it; it characterizes the aged dictator as
+    an astute but implacable egotist, Corral, as his victim, and
+    Limantour, as a cynic, disloyal to his chief, rejoicing from
+    afar at sight of the great man’s overthrow; although but fairly
+    well documented, and lacking that impartiality which is to
+    be desired in a history, it is the most instructive work yet
+    written regarding recent events in México.
+
+=Prieto, Guillermo (_Fidel_): Memorias de mis tiempos, 1828 a 1840.=
+París y México. Librería de la vda. de C. Bouret, 1906. 447 pp. 8ᵒ.
+front. of author.
+
+    The period covered is in reality from 1828 until 1853; it is
+    of great value, since it reflects the views of a literary man
+    regarding many interesting personages and events.
+
+=[Quesada, Ernesto]: La política argentina respecto de Chile.
+(1895-1898.)= [By Ernesto Quesada.] Buenos Aires, Arnoldo Moen, 1898. 239
+pp. 8ᵒ.
+
+    A vigorous discussion of Argentina’s dealings with Chile by one
+    who, although essentially partisan to his own country, knew
+    well the republic to the westward, and was able to accord it
+    respectful consideration.
+
+=Ramírez, José Fernando: México durante su guerra con los Estados
+Unidos.= México, librería de la vda. de Ch. Bouret, 1905. (Under caption:
+“Documentos inéditos ó muy raros para la historia de México publicados
+por Genaro García y Carlos Pereyra.” Tomo III.) viii, 322 pp. 12mo.
+
+    Invaluable for the historian.
+
+=Reed, John: Insurgent Mexico.= By John Reed. New York and London, D.
+Appleton & co., 1914. viii, 325 [1] pp. 12mo.
+
+    A reporter’s story which, for some unaccountable reason
+    achieved publication; the following offerings, taken at
+    random, are supposed to be Spanish: “trista historia d’amor,”
+    “frijole,” “arré mulas,” “carne crudo,” “christiano,”
+    “gachupine;” this is the general style of the book; even this
+    could be forgiven if the matter were interesting.
+
+=René-Moreno, Gabriel: Bolivia y Argentina. Notas biográficas y
+bibliográficas.= Por Gabriel René-Moreno. Santiago de Chile, imprenta
+Cervantes, 1901. 553 pp. 12mo.
+
+    An instructive series of sketches under the following
+    titles: “Buenos Aires en 1879,” “Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna,”
+    “Letras argentinas,” “Nicomedes Antelo,” “El doctor don José
+    Segovia,” “El doctor don Felipe Antonio de Iriarte,” “Don
+    Ángel Justiniano Carranza,” “Documentos sobre la revolución
+    alto-peruana,” “Juan Ramón Muñoz Cabrera.”
+
+=René-Moreno, Gabriel: Bolivia y Perú. Nuevas notas históricas y
+bibliográficas.= Por Gabriel René-Moreno. Santiago de Chile, sociedad,
+imprenta y litografía Universo, 1907. xii, 676 pp. 12mo.
+
+    A serious and scholarly account of certain events and periods
+    in the history of the struggle for independence, particularly
+    as participated in by Bolivia and Perú, supported by abundant
+    references to original sources of information.
+
+=Reyes, _General_ Rafael: The two Americans.= By _General_ Rafael Reyes,
+ex-president of the republic of Colombia. Translated from the Spanish,
+with added notes by Leopold Grahame. New York, Frederick A. Stokes co.,
+MCMXIV. xxxii, 324 pp. 8ᵒ.
+
+    Without attempting to furnish a complete history of the various
+    republics, the author says in the introduction, “This work
+    represents a record of my recent travels through the Latin
+    countries.” A moderately interesting account of personal
+    observations and opinions by a prominent South American of
+    considerable experience, actuated by a desire to better the
+    relations between the citizens of the republics of this
+    hemisphere.
+
+=Rives, George Lockhart: The United States and Mexico, 1821-1848. A
+history of the relations between the two countries from the independence
+of Mexico to the close of the war with the United States.= By George
+Lockhart Rives. 2 vols. New York, Charles Scribner’s sons, 1913. Vol. I.
+viii, 720 pp. 8ᵒ. 3 maps. Vol. II. vi, 726 pp. 8ᵒ. 12 maps.
+
+    The first volume contains a narrative of our history in the
+    southwestern part of the United States, and of our relations
+    with México there preceding the war of 1847; the second, a
+    comprehensive history of our war with México; characterized
+    by absence of partisan tone; scholarly yet readable; original
+    sources, both manuscript and printed, have been used with care
+    and discrimination; characterization vivid yet judicious; the
+    whole shows an appreciation of the point of view of Mexicans.
+
+=Robertson, William Spence: The beginnings of Spanish-American
+diplomacy.= (Contained in “Essays in American history,” dedicated to
+Frederick Jackson Turner.) New York, Henry Holt & co., 1910. pp. 231-267.
+8ᵒ.
+
+    A well documented and carefully prepared monograph.
+
+=Robinson, Albert G.: Cuba and the intervention.= By Albert G. Robinson.
+New York, London and Bombay, Longmans, Green & co., 1905. [iii], 354 pp.
+8ᵒ.
+
+    A book that contains considerable information regarding the
+    period which it covers, in spite of its lack of perspective,
+    and its defects of style and emphasis.
+
+=Rodríguez, José Ignacio: American constitutions. A compilation of
+the political constitutions of the independent nations of the New
+World, with short historical notes and various appendixes.= By José
+Ignacio Rodríguez, chief translator and librarian. (Under page caption:
+“International bureau of American republics.”) (In 2 vols. 8ᵒ.)
+Washington, Government printing office. Vol. I, 1906. 422 pp. Vol. II,
+1907. 452 pp.
+
+    These volumes contain four parts: the first and second parts
+    are found in Volume I, the third and fourth in Volume II. Part
+    one contains the constitutions of the United States of America,
+    in English and Spanish; of México, Argentina and Venezuela, in
+    Spanish and English; and of Brazil, in Portuguese, Spanish and
+    English; part two, those of Guatemala, Salvador, Nicaragua,
+    Costa Rica, Honduras and Panamá, in Spanish and English; part
+    three, those of the Dominican republic and Cuba, in Spanish
+    and English, and of Haití, in French, English and Spanish;
+    part four, those of Uruguay, Chile, Perú, Ecuador, Colombia,
+    Paraguay and Bolivia, in Spanish and English.
+
+    Naturally this work is invaluable for the student of history or
+    government.
+
+=Rodway, James: The West Indies and the Spanish main.= By James Rodway.
+London, T. Fisher Unwin; New York, G. P. Putnam’s sons, MDCCCXCVI. xxiv,
+371 pp. 12mo. front. 1 map. 48 illus.
+
+    An account of the discovery, settlement and early history of
+    the islands and continental countries of the Caribbean; not
+    documented, yet worthy of consideration.
+
+=Rojas, Arístides: Estudios indígenas. Contribuciones a la historia
+antigua de Venezuela.= Por Arístides Rojas, laureado de la universidad
+central de Venezuela, etc. Obra mandada publicar por orden del gran
+demócrata, general Francisco Linares Alcántara, presidente constitucional
+de los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. Caracas, imprenta Nacional, 1878. 217
+[2] pp. 8ᵒ.
+
+    Of importance and value for students of primitive speech and
+    ideas.
+
+=Romero, Matías: Mexico and the United States. A study of subjects
+affecting their political, commercial and social relations, made with
+a view to their promotion.= By Matias Romero. New York and London, G. P.
+Putnam’s sons, 1898. xxxiv, 759 pp. 8ᵒ. 1 map. 2 diagrams.
+
+    A geographical, statistical, climatological, historical,
+    industrial, commercial and juridical conglomerate; valuable,
+    although not always either frank or thorough.
+
+=Root, _Excmo. Sr._ Elihu: Visita al Peru del secretario de estado de los
+Estados Unidos, _Excmo. Sr._ Elihu Root. Visit to Peru of the Hon. Elihu
+Root, secretary of state of the United States.= Lima, imp. Americana (de
+E. Andrade y cía., Santo Toribio), 1906. 150 pp. 12 mo. [69 illus.]
+
+    An account in Spanish and English of Mr. Root’s visit, and of
+    the honors done him, and a report of addresses made by him
+    and his hosts; interesting evidence of the good impression he
+    produced.
+
+=Ross, Edward Alsworth: South of Panamá.= By Edward Alsworth Ross, Ph.D.,
+LL.D., professor of sociology, university of Wisconsin, author of “Social
+control,” “Social psychology,” “The changing Chinese,” “The old world in
+the new,” etc. New York, The Century co., 1915. xvi, 396 pp. front. 1
+map. 78 illus.
+
+    This well advertised book, in spite of the many laudatory
+    reviews that have hailed its advent, is, nevertheless,
+    disappointing in its plausible presentation of striking
+    half-truths, careless observations, and hasty and too sweeping
+    generalizations; in style it abounds in the reportorial
+    characteristics of vigor and sprightliness, with scant regard
+    for finish, or accuracy, even in such easy details as the
+    spelling of foreign words; it is but another illustration of
+    the fact that honesty of purpose in seeking and publishing the
+    truth, at any cost, of which boast is made in the preface, is
+    but an imperfect substitute for thorough knowledge.
+
+=[Roxlo, Carlos:] El Uruguay en 1904. La guerra civil.= [By Carlos
+Roxlo.] Buenos Aires, J. Moloney, 1904. 290 pp. 12mo. Front.
+
+    A popular history of the period.
+
+=Ruhl, Arthur: The other Americans. The cities, the countries, and
+especially the people of South America.= By Arthur Ruhl. Illustrated. New
+York, Charles Scribner’s sons, 1908. xi, 298 pp. 12mo. front. 1 map. 43
+illus.
+
+    The easy chat of a sympathetic and alert observer, regarding a
+    trip through most of the countries of South America, with good
+    descriptions, occasional dialogues marred by absurd Spanish,
+    fragments of history, and statistics of the kind that need
+    revision within a year of their publication.
+
+=Sahagún, _M. R. P. Fr._ Bernardino de: Historia universal de las cosas
+de Nueva España.= Por el _M. R. P. Fr._ Bernardino de Sahagun, de la
+orden de los frayles menores de la observancia. (In _Kingsborough’s_
+Mexican Antiquities, Vol. VII.) 464 pp. folio.
+
+    A storehouse of information regarding the Indians, with whom
+    the author had spent much of his life, and from whom he
+    collected details concerning their history, religious ideas,
+    customs, etc.; of prime importance to the serious student.
+
+=St. John, _Sir_ Spenser [Buckingham]: Hayti or the black republic.= By
+_Sir_ Spenser [Buckingham] St. John, K.C.M.G., formerly her majesty’s
+minister resident and consul-general in Hayti, now her majesty’s special
+envoy to Mexico. London, Smith, Elder & co., 1884. xiv, 343 pp. 12mo.
+front. 1 map.
+
+    Not properly documented yet readable and worthy of
+    consideration, in lieu of thoroughly satisfactory books on this
+    subject.
+
+=Salvador: General descriptive data prepared in June, 1909.= By the
+International bureau of American republics. Washington, D.C., Government
+printing office, 1909. 11 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph. 2 illus.
+
+    See comment on the similar pamphlet: “Argentine republic, the:
+    General descriptive data,” etc.
+
+=Savage-Landor, A. Henry: Across unknown South America.= By A. Henry
+Savage-Landor. With 2 maps, 8 colored plates, and 260 illustrations
+from photographs by the author. (In 2 vols. 4ᵒ.) London, New York, and
+Toronto, Hodder & Stoughton, [1913]. Vol. I. xxiv, 432 pp. front. 2 maps.
+105 illus. Vol. II. xvi, 504 pp. front. in colors. 158 illus.
+
+    An ambitious work, ornately bound, finely printed and profusely
+    illustrated; in the main, the descriptions are of journeys
+    through regions not “unknown” but well known; owing to its
+    general untrustworthiness of statement and the untenableness of
+    the theories propounded, it has no scientific value; page after
+    page of wearisome colloquies and details of travel rob it of
+    interest for discriminating minds.
+
+=Schmidt, Ulrich, and Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez: The conquest of the
+river Plate (1535-1555). I. Voyage of Ulrich Schmidt to the rivers La
+Plata and Paraguai, from the original German edition, 1567. II. With the
+commentaries of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, from the original Spanish
+edition, 1555.= Translated for the Hakluyt society with notes and an
+introduction by Luis L. Domínguez, minister plenipotentiary of the
+Argentine republic, corresponding member of the Argentine geographical
+institute and of the Royal Spanish academy of history. London, the
+Hakluyt society, MDCCCXCI. xxxviii, 282 pp. 8ᵒ. 1 map.
+
+    Accounts of much interest and importance to students of history
+    who desire to consult “original documents.”
+
+=Scott, William R[obert]: The Americans in Panama.= By William R[obert]
+Scott. Illustrated. New York, The Statler publishing co., 1912. xiii, 258
+pp. 12mo. front. 19 illus.
+
+    The author claims to have spent five months in Panamá,
+    during three of which he served as an employee of the Canal
+    commission; he therefore felt qualified to write a book, taking
+    little account of his evident lack of literary qualification;
+    he has therefore produced a hodge-podge of history, statistics
+    and biographical details, illustrated by commonplace pictures,
+    which if it has any value, may serve merely as a gazetteer of
+    the construction service.
+
+=Scruggs, William L.: The Colombian and Venezuelan republics. With notes
+on other parts of Central and South America.= By William L. Scruggs, late
+envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to
+Colombia and to Venezuela. With maps and illustrations. Boston, Little,
+Brown & co., 1900. xii, 350 pp. 12mo. front. 3 maps. 10 illus.
+
+    Characterized by a naïve inaccuracy in Spanish orthography that
+    is at least original, if somewhat disconcerting, a disregard
+    of facts, and a general ignorance of history that leads
+    one to wonder as to how the author might have employed the
+    twenty-seven years which he says he spent in South America; if
+    he had given, as he promised to give, more of his “personal
+    experiences,” and less of his “studies,” this book might not
+    have been wholly useless.
+
+=Seler, Eduard: On the present state of our knowledge of the Mexican and
+Central American hieroglyphic writing.= By Eduard Seler. (In proceedings
+of the International congress of American history, 13th session, New
+York, 1902.) [Easton, Pennsylvania, Eschenbach printing co., 1905.] pp.
+157-170. 8ᵒ.
+
+    A valuable review of efforts at interpretation, with allusions
+    to the various theories of other writers.
+
+=Shepherd, William R.: Latin America.= By William R. Shepherd, professor
+of history in Columbia university; honorary professor in the university
+of Chile; corresponding member of the Spanish Royal academy of history,
+of the Argentine scientific society, and of the National academy of
+history of Venezuela; member of the Hispanic society of America. New
+York, Henry Holt & co.; London, Williams & Norgate, [1914]. viii, 265 pp.
+16mo. 1 map.
+
+    An excellent primer, which gives more valuable information than
+    any other work of a similar character in so small a compass;
+    the author has succeeded admirably in achieving the Latin
+    American point of view; only slight inconsistencies in the
+    spelling of place names need to be pardoned.
+
+=Skottsberg, Carl: The wilds of Patagonia. A narrative of the Swedish
+expedition to Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland islands in
+1907-1909.= By Carl Skottsberg, D.Sc., etc. London, Edward Arnold, 1911.
+xix, 336 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 3 maps. 53 illus.
+
+    An interesting account of a two years’ stay by three university
+    men in Patagonia; very valuable for the study of a region about
+    which so little is known or written.
+
+=Smith, F[rancis] Hopkinson: A white umbrella in Mexico.= By F[rancis]
+Hopkinson Smith. With illustrations by the author. Boston and New York,
+Houghton, Mifflin & co., 1891. viii, 227 pp. 16ᵒ. 36 illus.
+
+    In his introduction the author says: “My probe has not
+    gone very far below the surface. The task would have been
+    uncongenial and the result superfluous. The record of the
+    resources, religions, politics, governments, social conditions
+    and misfortunes of Mexico already enlarges many folios and
+    lies heavy on many shelves, and I hope on some consciences.”
+    Practising this admirable restraint, he has presented what
+    appealed to him as a painter and an idler in a manner that
+    both charms and enlightens, his account being greatly enhanced
+    by the pictures; it would be too much to expect that he would
+    attend to so trivial a matter as accuracy in the Spanish
+    introduced.
+
+=Smith, W. Anderson: Temperate Chile. A progressive Spain.= By W.
+Anderson Smith, author of “Lewsiana,” “Benderloch,” “Shepherd Smith, the
+universalist,” etc. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1899. 399 pp. 8ᵒ.
+front. 1 map.
+
+    Overlooking a tendency to belaud his countrymen and their
+    achievements on the west coast, and unconsciously to patronize
+    those among whom he confesses to having found friends, this
+    author may be deemed a good reporter upon the conditions which
+    he encountered, without attempting excursions into fields with
+    which he was not familiar.
+
+=Solís [y Ribadeneyra], Antonio de: Historia de la conquista de Méjico,
+poblacion y progresos de la America Septentrional, conocida por el nombre
+de Nueva España.= Escribiala don Antonio de Solís [y Ribadeneyra],
+secretario de su majestad, y su cronista mayor de las Indias. Nueva
+edicion, aumentada con un resumen histórico, desde la rendicion de Méjico
+hasta el fallecimiento de Hernan Cortés, é illustrado con notas por don
+José de la Revilla, individuo de varios cuerpos literarios. Paris, Vᵃ.
+Baudry, Libreria europea; New York, Roe Lockwood & son, 1858. 488 pp. 8ᵒ.
+front.
+
+    A classic, both in literary style and in its grandiose
+    descriptions of men, facts and occurrences; although
+    somewhat discredited because of its too ready acceptance of
+    unauthenticated statements and its tendency to glorify unduly
+    the prowess of both the Spaniards and the Indians, it must be
+    considered by every historian.
+
+=Southey, Robert: History of Brazil.= By Robert Southey. Second edition.
+London, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Part the
+first, 1822. xvi, 715 [xlii] pp. 4ᵒ. 1 map. Part the second, 1817. xvi,
+718 [i] pp. 4ᵒ. Part the third, 1819. xx, 950 pp. 4ᵒ.
+
+    Although written with the bias of the period to which it
+    belongs, it is systematically documented and worthy of
+    consideration.
+
+=Speer, Robert E[lliott]: South American problems.= By Robert E[lliott]
+Speer. New York, Student volunteer movement for foreign missions, 1912.
+viii, 270 pp. 12mo. 1 map. 19 illus.
+
+    A superficial sketch, containing fragments of ancient history,
+    and a general description of all the countries of South
+    America, with special attention to education, the Catholic
+    religion, and the Protestant missions, written in a good
+    spirit, and of value to students of these subjects.
+
+=Squier, E[phraim] G[eorge]: Honduras; descriptive, historical and
+statistical.= By E[phraim] G[eorge] Squier, formerly chargé d’affaires
+of the United States to the republics of Central America. Issued by
+permission of the author, and under the authority of his excellency don
+Carlos Gutierrez, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the
+republic of Honduras in Great Britain. London, Trübner & co., 1870. viii,
+178 pp. Small 12mo. front. 1 map.
+
+    Unpretentious, sane and too valuable to be overlooked by any
+    student of the country.
+
+=Squier, E[phraim] George: Peru. Incidents of travel and exploration in
+the land of the Incas.= By E[phraim] George Squier, M.A., F.S.A., late
+United States commissioner to Peru, etc. With illustrations. New York,
+Harper & bros., 1877. xx, 599 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 5 maps. 250 illus.
+
+    An important pioneer work of enduring usefulness, pardoning, of
+    course, occasional vagaries in Spanish.
+
+=Starr, Frederick: In Indian Mexico. A narrative of travel and labor.= By
+Frederick Starr. Chicago, Forbes & co., 1908. x, 425 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 96
+illus.
+
+    A valuable and picturesque description of life and customs
+    among the Indians of southern México by a trained ethnologist.
+
+=Starr, Frederick: Recent Mexican study of the native languages of
+Mexico.= By Frederick Starr. (Under caption: “The university of Chicago,
+department of anthropology, bulletin iv.”) Chicago, the university of
+Chicago press, 1900. 18 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph.
+
+    A valuable bibliography of important works by modern Mexicans
+    upon the native languages of México.
+
+=Terry, T. Philip: Terry’s Mexico. Handbook for travellers.= By T. Philip
+Terry. With two maps and twenty-five plans. City of Mexico, Sonora news
+co.; Boston, Houghton Mifflin co., 1909. ccxl, 595 pp. 16ᵒ. 2 maps. 25
+plans.
+
+    Valuable, both for the traveler and for the student at home.
+
+=Tezozomoc, Fernando de Alvarado: Cronica mexicana de Fernando de
+Alvarado Tezozomoc.= (In _Kingsborough’s_ “Mexican Antiquities,” Vol.
+IX.) 192 pp. folio.
+
+    A work (by an Indian) that deals with the history, the beliefs
+    and the customs of the Aztecs or Mexicans, which may not be
+    overlooked by the historian, although, like similar writings
+    of the period, it must be subjected to critical scrutiny and
+    accepted at its proper value.
+
+=Thomas, Cyrus: Discoveries in the Mexican and Maya codices.= The
+American antiquarian and oriental journal, March, 1886. Chicago, F. H.
+Revell. pp. 69-76. 8ᵒ. 3 illus.
+
+    An unsuccessful effort at interpretation, yet of interest to
+    specialists in the study of picture writing.
+
+=Thompson, Edward H.: Archæological researches in Yucatan. Reports of
+explorations for the museum.= By Edward H. Thompson. (Under caption:
+“Memoirs of the Peabody museum of American archæology and ethnology,
+Harvard university. Vol. III, No. 1.”) Cambridge, Massachusetts, the
+Museum, 1904. 20 pp. folio. 1 map. 9 plts. 10 illus. in the text.
+
+    A good account of interesting explorations, printed in the
+    luxurious style of this museum upon fine paper with wide
+    margins, and admirably illustrated.
+
+=Thompson, Edward H.: Cave of Loltun, Yucatan. Report of explorations by
+the Museum, 1888-89 and 1890-91.= (Under caption: “Memoirs of the Peabody
+museum of American archæology and ethnology, Harvard university, Vol. I,
+No. 2.”). Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Museum, 1897. 24 pp. folio. 8
+plts. 16 illus. in the text.
+
+    See comment on the preceding.
+
+=Thompson, Edward H.: The Chultunes of Labná, Yucatan. Report of the
+explorations by the Museum, 1888-89 and 1890-91.= (Under caption:
+“Memoirs of the Peabody museum of American archæology and ethnology,
+Harvard university. Vol. I, No. 3.”) Cambridge, Massachusetts, the
+Museum, 1897. 20 pp. folio. 13 plts. 13 illus. in the text.
+
+    See comment above.
+
+=Thompson, George: The war in Paraguay with an historical sketch of the
+country and its people and notes upon the military engineering of the
+war.= By George Thompson, C.E., lieutenant-colonel of engineers in the
+Paraguayan army, aide-de-camp to president Lopez, knight of the order of
+merit of Paraguay, etc. With maps, plans and a portrait of Lopez. London,
+Longmans, Green & co., 1869. 347 pp. 12mo. front. 5 maps. 3 illus.
+
+    An interesting account of persons and events by one who was
+    in a position to make observations, with few references to
+    authorities; the occasional efforts at etymology are not
+    felicitous.
+
+=Torres Caicedo, J[osé] M[aría]: Union latino-americana. Pensamiento de
+Bolivar para formar una liga americana; su origen y sus desarrollos y
+estudio sobre la gran cuestion que tanto interesa a los estados débiles,
+a saber: ¿un gobierna légitimo es responsable por los daños y perjuicios
+ocasionados a los extranjeros por las facciones?= Por J[osé] M[aría]
+Torres Caicedo, antiguo encargado de negocios de Venezuela, miembro de
+la socie[dad] de Economía Política de Paris, de la sociedad de Literatos
+de Francia, de la sociedad de Geografía de Paris y de várias otras
+sociedades científicas y literarias de Europa y de América, etc. Paris,
+libreria de Rosa y Bouret, 1865. 385 pp. 12mo.
+
+    An undocumented work by an experienced and distinguished
+    diplomat and historian; of great value to the serious student
+    who may be interested in the course of the relations between
+    the American republics; the following are the main subjects
+    discussed; confederacy and federation, and explanation of
+    the early convulsions of Latin America, the union of the
+    struggling colonies achieved in advance of a theoretical basis,
+    the congress at Panamá in 1826, later efforts at union, the
+    American congress at Lima in 1847, continental treaty between
+    Chile, Perú and Ecuador, plans for uniting the five republics
+    of Central America, an interpretation of the true Monroe
+    doctrine, a discussion of British and North American diplomacy
+    with reference to Latin America, documents.
+
+=Uhle, _Dr._ Max: Pachacamac. Report of the William Pepper, M.D., LL.D.,
+Peruvian expedition of 1896.= By _Dr._ Max Uhle. Plan of the city and
+twenty-one plates in phototype. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, published by
+the department of archæology of the university of Pennsylvania, 1903. xi,
+103 pp. large folio. 21 plates. 122 illus.
+
+    A comprehensive and valuable account of the work of the
+    expedition sent under the auspices of the department to explore
+    the site of the ancient city of Pachacamac in Perú, with ample
+    documentation.
+
+=Unstead, J. F., and Taylor, E. G. R.: Philips’ comparative wall atlas
+of South America.= Edited by J. F. Unstead, M.A., D.Sc., and E. G. R.
+Taylor, B.Sc. London, George Philip & son, ltd., the London geographical
+institute; New York, C. S. Hammond & co. 8 maps, 36 × 40 inches,
+approximately 150 miles to the inch.
+
+    It supplies a complete outline of the geography of South
+    America, each map exhibiting a different aspect, as follows:
+    relief and communications, political divisions, temperature,
+    climate, November to April, climate, May to October, density of
+    population, natural vegetation, economic products; excellent in
+    every way; of rare educational value.
+
+=Uruguay: General descriptive data prepared in June, 1909.= By the
+International bureau of American republics. Washington, D.C., Government
+printing office, 1909. 15 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph. 1 chart. 2 illus.
+
+    See comment on the similar pamphlet: “Argentine republic, the:
+    General descriptive data,” etc.
+
+=Usher, Roland G.: Pan-Americanism. A forecast of the inevitable clash
+between the United States and Europe’s victor.= By Roland G. Usher,
+Ph.D., professor of history, Washington university, St. Louis, author of
+“Pan-Germanism,” “The rise of the American people,” etc. New York, The
+Century co., 1915. xix, 416 [1] pp. 8ᵒ.
+
+    “The major part of the volume has been devoted to the present
+    condition of the United States and Latin America, with especial
+    attention to Pan-Americanism as a possible solution of American
+    problems.”—_Preface._ A sensational attempt at prophecy;
+    while the right to prophesy may not be denied to any, the
+    present effort is interesting rather as an exhibition of the
+    author’s peculiar mentality than as a sane and authenticated
+    discussion of the subject; the author displays somewhat of the
+    prestidigitator’s ability to produce a number of dissimilar
+    things from what was apparently only one thing, as he passes
+    with baffling agility from shadowy suggestion to elaborate
+    hypothesis, and thence to the assumption of a completely
+    demonstrated conclusion; seldom have more varied and glaring
+    errors and inconsistencies been brought together in one work;
+    at any rate those who may fear “the inevitable clash between
+    the United States and Europe’s victor,” to quote the subtitle,
+    need not be seriously disturbed by this work, for if there is
+    anything that is not proven in it, it is the inevitableness of
+    the supposititious “clash.”
+
+=Van Dyke, Harry Weston: Through South America.= By Harry Weston Van
+Dyke. With introduction by John Barrett, director general of the
+Pan-American union. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell co., [1912]. xxiv, 446
+pp. front. 12mo. 41 illus.
+
+    The title suggests that this is a book of travel; it is not,
+    however, in the ordinary sense of the word, as there is no
+    indication of the author’s route nor of the countries he
+    visited; it is a concise description of the ten republics of
+    South America, and of British, Dutch and French Guayana, with
+    an outline of the history of the conquest and of the struggle
+    for independence; it has little value as a history, owing to
+    its superficial and fragmentary character, or as a book of
+    travel, owing to its peculiar form; the frequent introduction
+    of inaccurate Spanish and Portuguese is irritating; the
+    bibliography at the back is too meager to be of much use.
+
+=Vega, Garcilasso de la: First part of the royal commentaries of the
+Yncas.= By the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega. Translated and edited, with
+notes and an introduction by Clements R. Markham. (In 2 vols. 8ᵒ.)
+London, printed for the Hakluyt society. Vol. I, MDCCCLXIX (containing
+books I, II, III, IV). xi, 359 pp. Vol. II, MDCCCLXXI (containing books
+V, VI, VII, VIII, IX). v, 553 pp. 1 map.
+
+    Of unquestionable value for students who desire to go deeply
+    into the study of early opinion regarding primitive Peruvian
+    history; the translation is good.
+
+=Venezuela: General descriptive data prepared in June, 1909.= By the
+International bureau of American republics. Washington, D.C., Government
+printing office, 1909. 16 pp. 8ᵒ. pamph. 5 illus.
+
+    See comment on the similar pamphlet: “Argentine republic, the:
+    General descriptive data,” etc.
+
+=Vincent, Frank: Around and about South America. Twelve months of quest
+and query.= New York, D. Appleton & co., 1890. xxiv, 473 pp. 8ᵒ. 2 maps.
+4 plans. 54 illus.
+
+    A readable, popular story of travel: New York to Panamá,
+    thence through Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia, Chile, the straits of
+    Magallanes, skirting Falkland islands, Uruguay, Argentina,
+    Paraguay, Brazil, the Guayanas, Venezuela and Colombia.
+
+=Waleffe, Maurice de: The fair land of Central America.= By Maurice de
+Waleffe. Translated by Violette M. Montagu, author of “Sophie Dawes,
+queen of Chantilly,” and translator of “Gambetta’s life and letters.”
+Preface by Sir A. Conan Doyle. With twenty-four illustrations from
+photographs. London, John Long, ltd., MCMXI. 288 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 24 illus.
+
+    The author, an airy anti-American Frenchman, gifted with a
+    trick of clever and mordant expression, while wholly oblivious
+    to facts, devotes just one chapter (that upon Costa Rica) to
+    Central America; the rest of the book deals with Trinidad,
+    Jamaica, Cuba, Panamá and México; not often has so much
+    nonsense been assembled in one publication; possibly some
+    readers may be amused, but none will be convinced by this
+    fantastic book.
+
+=Wallace, Alfred R.: A narrative of travels on the Amazon and rio Negro,
+with an account of the native tribes, and observations on the climate,
+geology and natural history of the Amazon valley.= By Alfred R. Wallace,
+with a map and illustrations. London, Reeve & co., 1853. viii, 541 pp.
+front. 2 maps. 7 illus.
+
+    An interesting account of travel about the middle of the last
+    century, with such observations as so alert and discriminating
+    a writer would make, even in his youth, particularly regarding
+    the weapons, utensils, etc., and the languages of the Indians.
+
+=Wallace, Dillon: Beyond the Mexican sierras.= By Dillon Wallace, author
+of “The Long Labrador trail,” “Ungava Bob,” etc. With 75 illustrations
+from photographs by the author, and a map. Chicago, A. C. McClurg & co.,
+1910. xxix, 301 pp. 12mo. front. 1 map. 72 illus.
+
+    While the author is too much given to generalities, and is
+    often mistaken about facts and words, the book is interesting
+    as an account of travel, because it deals with localities
+    regarding which little has been written.
+
+=Washburn, Charles A[mes]: The history of Paraguay, with notes
+of personal observations, and reminiscences of diplomacy under
+difficulties.= By Charles A[mes] Washburn, commissioner and minister
+resident of the United States at Asuncion from 1861 to 1868. In two
+volumes. Boston, Lee & Shepard; New York, Lee, Shepard, & Dillingham,
+1871. Vol. I. xii, 571 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 1 map. [6 illus.] Vol. II. xiv, 627
+pp. 8ᵒ. front. [2 maps. 12 illus.]
+
+    Passing lightly over the part that is devoted to history,
+    which is as satisfactory as could be expected under the
+    circumstances, the main body of this work, which consists of
+    personal observations and reminiscences, is an interesting
+    human document that must be taken into account by students of
+    the subject.
+
+=Watson, Robert Grant: Spanish and Portuguese South America during the
+colonial period.= By Robert Grant Watson, editor of “Murray’s handbook of
+Greece.” (In 2 vols. 12mo.) London, Trübner & co., 1884. Vol. I. xvi, 308
+pp. 3 maps. Vol. II. viii, 319 pp.
+
+    One of the earlier modern histories; not of great present
+    value, in view of more thorough later publications; the
+    author misspells many Spanish words, after the manner of his
+    countrymen generally.
+
+=Wells, William V.: Explorations and adventures in Honduras, comprising
+sketches of travel in the gold regions of Olancho, and a review of the
+history and general resources of Central America. With original maps, and
+numerous illustrations.= By William V. Wells. New York, Harper & bros.,
+1857. xxiv, 588 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 2 maps. 61 illus.
+
+    Of serious explorations there were none; this is but a book of
+    travel, not lacking in interest, with occasional references to
+    history, and to persons who were then making it.
+
+=Whitney, Caspar: The flowing road. Adventures on the great rivers of
+South America.= By Caspar Whitney, author of “A Sporting pilgrimage,”
+“On snowshoes on the barren grounds,” “Hawaiian America,” “Jungle trails
+and jungle people,” etc. With maps and photographs by the author.
+Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott & co., 1912. 319 pp. 8ᵒ. front.
+53 illus.
+
+    A work by one who took keen interest in exploration and
+    hunting, and in studying the forests and plants of the wilds;
+    it contains fresh and accurate descriptions of conditions and
+    incidents of travel, and of nature, with particular attention
+    to parasitic growths.
+
+=[Willis, Bailey]: Northern Patagonia, character and resources. Volume
+I. A study of the elements of development in the region tributary to
+the national railway from port San Antonio to lago Nahuel Huapí and
+the extension to Valdivia, Chile; including the Andean lake district.
+(Under caption: “Ministry of public works, bureau of railways, Argentine
+republic.”)= [By Bailey Willis]. Text and maps by the Comisión de
+estudios hidrológicos, Bailey Willis, director. [Buenos Aires],
+1911-1914. [Scribner’s press, New York.] xix, 464 pp. 8ᵒ. 20 maps in
+text, 13 in separate case. 37 illus.
+
+    A lucid and wholly admirable account of the thorough and
+    extensive investigations made by a trained scientist possessed
+    of every facility for gathering, recording, illustrating and
+    publishing interesting and useful information regarding the
+    material potentialities of highly important, but hitherto
+    only slightly known and charted regions; the maps, pictures,
+    tables and make-up are of rare excellence; only occasional
+    inconsistencies in the spelling of Spanish names are to be
+    noted.
+
+=Wilson, Robert Anderson: A new history of the conquest of Mexico, in
+which Las Casas’ denunciations of the popular historians of that war are
+fully vindicated.= By Robert Anderson Wilson, counsellor at law; author
+of “Mexico and its religion,” etc. Philadelphia, James Challen & son,
+etc., 1859. 539 pp. 8ᵒ. front. 19 maps. 20 illus.
+
+    An interesting and profusely documented restatement of the
+    conquest by an aggressive and doughty iconoclast, whose vigor
+    and bias are as perceptible as his conclusions are illogical
+    and indefensible.
+
+=Winsor, Justin: Narrative and critical history of America.= Edited by
+Justin Winsor, librarian of Harvard university, corresponding secretary
+Massachusetts historical society. (In 8 vols. 8ᵒ.) Boston and New York,
+Houghton Mifflin co., 1889. Vol. I. Aboriginal America. xxxvii, 470 pp.
+front. 54 maps. 54 illus. Vol. II. Spanish explorations and settlements
+in America from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. ix, 640 pp.
+113 maps. 135 illus. Vol. III. English explorations and settlements
+in North America, 1497-1689. xi, 578 pp. 57 maps. 50 illus. Vol. IV.
+French explorations and settlements in North America, and those of the
+Portuguese, Dutch and Swedes, 1500-1700. xxx, 516 pp. 140 maps. 35 illus.
+Vol. V. The English and French in North America, 1689-1763. vii, 649 pp.
+106 maps. 93 illus. Vol. VI. The United States of North America: part 1.
+vii, 777 pp. 118 maps. 116 illus. Vol. VII. The United States of North
+America: part 2. vii, 610 pp. 32 maps. 129 illus. Vol. VIII. The later
+history of British, Spanish and Portuguese America. vii, 604 pp. 123
+maps. 122 illus.
+
+    A vast storehouse of historical and bibliographical
+    information; of great value to students, although all will
+    recognize that the articles upon the different subjects and
+    periods are naturally of unequal merit, owing to the diversity
+    of authorship, which formed a part of the editor’s plan; while
+    the illustrations, which are reproductions, are numerous, they
+    are crude, and in many cases are too far removed from the first
+    originals from which they were remotely derived.
+
+=Winter, Nevin O.: Argentine and her people of to-day. An account of the
+customs, characteristics, amusements, history and advancement of the
+Argentinians, and the development and resources of their country.= By
+Nevin O. Winter, author of “Mexico and her people of to-day,” “Brazil and
+her people of to-day,” etc. Boston, L. C. Page & co., MDCCCCXI. xiv, 421
+pp. 8ᵒ. front. 1 map. 49 illus.
+
+    Compare comment on “Brazil and her people of to-day” by this
+    author.
+
+=Winter, Nevin O.: Brazil and her people of to-day. An account of the
+customs, characteristics, amusements, history and advancement of the
+Brazilians, and the development and resources of their country.= By
+Nevin O. Winter, author of “Mexico and her people of to-day,” “Guatemala
+and her people of to-day,” etc. Illustrated from original and selected
+photographs by the author. Boston, L. C. Page & co., MDCCCCX. x, 388 pp.
+12mo. front. 1 map. 48 illus.
+
+    See comment on “Guatemala and her people of to-day” by this
+    author; a book of the same general character as that, with
+    less excuse for being, inasmuch as there exists an excellent
+    literature regarding Brazil.
+
+=Winter, Nevin O.: Guatemala and her people of to-day. Being an account
+of the land, its history and development; the people, their customs and
+characteristics; to which are added chapters on British Honduras and the
+republic of Honduras, with references to the other countries of Central
+America, Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.= By Nevin O. Winter, author
+of “Mexico and her people of to-day.” Boston, L. C. Page & co., MDCCCCIX.
+xii, 307 pp. 12mo. front. 1 map. 48 illus.
+
+    An insignificant mesquite is esteemed in a desert; in the same
+    way this book, the product of a syndicated mind, superficial,
+    inaccurate in matter and form, and none too proper in spirit,
+    has a certain value, as a weak portrayal of things as they are,
+    in want of really good books upon this subject.
+
+=Winter, Nevin O.: Mexico and her people of to-day. An account of the
+customs, characteristics, amusements, history and advancement of the
+Mexicans, and the development and resources of their country.= By Nevin
+O. Winter. Illustrated from original photographs by the author and C. R.
+Birt. Boston, L. C. Page & co., [1907]. vi, 395 pp. 12mo. front. 2 maps.
+47 illus.
+
+    In view of the existence of really good works on this subject,
+    there is no reason why so slovenly a book as this should
+    achieve publication.
+
+=Wolf, Teodoro: Geografía y geología del Ecuador. Publicada por órden del
+supremo gobierno de la república.= Por Teodoro Wolf, Dr. Phil., antiguo
+professor de la escuela Politécnica de Quito y geólogo del estado. Con 12
+láminas autotípicas, 47 illustraciones en el texto y 2 cartas. Leipzig,
+F. A. Brockhaus, 1892. 671 pp. small 4ᵒ. front. 2 maps. 59 illus.
+
+    A fundamentally important work that treats of the topography,
+    geology and meteorology of continental Ecuador and the
+    Galápagos archipelago, with a brief account of botany and
+    zoölogy, enriched by an abundance of supplementary notes; the
+    maps are good.
+
+=Wright, Mary Robinson: The new Brazil, its resources and attractions,
+historical, descriptive, and industrial.= By Mary Robinson Wright, member
+of the Geographical society of America, etc., author of “Picturesque
+Mexico,” “The republic of Chile,” “Bolivia,” “The history of Peru,” etc.
+Philadelphia, George Barrie & sons; London and Paris, C. D. Cazenove &
+son, [1907]. 494 pp. 4ᵒ. front. 416 illus.
+
+    For comment, compare her work: “The old and new Peru.”
+
+=[Wright, Marie Robinson]: The republic of Chile. The growth, resources,
+and industrial conditions of a great nation.= [By Marie Robinson Wright.]
+Philadelphia, George Barrie & sons; London and Paris, C. D. Cazenove &
+son, [1914]. 450 pp. 4ᵒ. front. 352 illus.
+
+    See comment upon her work on Perú.
+
+=Wright, Mary Robinson: The old and the new Peru. A story of the ancient
+inheritance and the modern growth and entrance of a great nation.= By
+Mary Robinson Wright, member of the Geographical society of America,
+Geographical society of Brazil, Historical and Scientific institute
+of São Paulo, Geographical society of la Paz; author of “Picturesque
+Mexico,” “A new Brazil,” “The republic of Chile,” “Bolivia,” etc.
+Philadelphia, George Barrie & sons, 1908; London and Paris, C. D.
+Cazenove & son. 456 pp. 4ᵒ. front. 1 map. 346 illus.
+
+    A book in a florid style, which thoughtful people can not take
+    seriously, although it contains fragments of information and
+    records of impressions that are not without interest.
+
+=Zayas Enríquez, Rafael de: Porfirio Díaz.= By Rafael de Zayas Enríquez.
+New York, D. Appleton & co., 1908. v[i], 281 [1] pp. 12mo. front. 3 illus.
+
+    Worthy of consideration as an appreciative but not too
+    laudatory study of General Díaz, with unavailing suggestions
+    as to what might have led his country into ways of peace and
+    prosperity.
+
+=Zayas Enríquez, Rafael de: The case of Mexico and the policy of
+president Wilson.= By Rafael de Zayas Enríquez, author of “The rise and
+fall of president Díaz.” Translated from the Spanish by Andre Tridon. New
+York, Albert and Charles Boni, 1914. 209 pp. 12mo.
+
+    Making due allowance for the literary faults of this book which
+    are evident, and for the lack of good taste that characterizes
+    it, and entirely ignoring the last chapter, which is an absurd
+    misinterpretation of president Wilson’s attitude, and bearing
+    in mind that it was a frank plea for the recognition of Huerta,
+    it is an interesting statement of the case.
+
+=Zeballos, Estanislao S.: Argument for the Argentine republic upon the
+question with Brazil in regard to the territory of Missions, submitted to
+the arbitration of the president of the United States, in accordance with
+the treaty of September 7, 1889.= Presented by Estanislao S. Zeballos,
+envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the Argentine
+republic. Accompanied by documents and maps under the title of “Argentine
+evidence.” Washington, D.C., 1894. 4ᵒ. 20 maps.
+
+    An important collection of documents and maps.
+
+
+                 Printed in the United States of America.
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