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 936 Reviews of Books i8i2 y dc las Disposicioncs dc Gobicnio Iiiiprcsas en la Hahana dcsdc ^753 hasta 1800. Por Luis M. Perez, A.M. (Havana, the author, 1907, pp. XV, 62, 16, vii.) This unpretending but learned pamphlet lists with true bibliographical care some 214 imprints relating to Cuban History, nearly all of which the compiler has seen in the archives of Santiago de Cuba and Havana, the Library of Congress in Washing- ton, the New York Public Library, or that of the Sociedad Economica in Havana. The contents fall into two main sections, the one dealing with books and pamphlets on Cuba printed in Spain or in foreign countries, the other with official prints — documents, broadsides, etc. The compiler rightly emphasizes in his introduction the importance of these governmental publications for all who attempt to construct Cuban history on a solid basis. Appendices present, for similar reasons, titles of publications of the Real Sociedad Patriotica, 1792-1799, and of the Real Consulado, 1795-1800. In the introduction are several interest- ing paragraphs regarding Cuban bibliography. Messrs. Ginn and Company have reprinted in two volumes (pp. 388, 438) the well-known General History of Professor Philip Van Ness Myers. The volumes are entitled respectively a Short History of Ancient Times and a Short History of Mediaeval and Modern Times; and they are designed for separate use as text-books in colleges and high schools. They comprise the revised text of the General History, with merely such changes in a few matters of detail as were necessary in order to make independent of each other the two divisions of the former book. Each volume contains an index.