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162 endowed with an iron constitution which has survived shocks other- wise crushing. I would call him a moody man, deeply morose at times, with a far from optimistic view of life, partly induced, no doubt, by extraordinary drafts upon his nervous system and fierce buffetings of his soul, and partly, perhaps, by the innumerable shafts of criticism that have been aimed at his work.

1. Native Races of the Pacific States, five vols. 1. Wild Tribes; 2. Civilized Nations ; 3. Myths and Languages ; 4. Antiquities ; 5. Primitive History. II. History of Central America, three vols. 1 . 1501-1530; 2. 1530-1800; 3. 1801-1887 . III. History of Mexico, six vols. 1. 1516-1521; 2. 1521-1600; 3. 1600 -1803; 4. 1804-1824; 5. 1824-1861 ; 6. 1861-1887. IV. History of the North Mexican States (and Texas), two vols. 1. 1531 -1800; 2. 1801-1889 . V. History of Arizona and New Mexico, one vol., 1 530 -1888. VI. History of California, seven vols. 1. 1542 -1800; 2. 1801-1824; 3. 1824 -1840; 4. 1840-1845; 5. 1846-1848; 6. 1848-1859; 7. 1860-1890 . VII. His- tory of Nevada, Colorado and Wyoming, one vol., 15 4 0 -1888. VIII. History of Utah, one vol., 15 40-1886. IX. History of the North- west Coast, two vols. 1. 1543 -1800; 2. 1800 -1846 . X. History of Oregon, two vols. 1. 1834-1848 ; 2. 1848-1888. XI. History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, one vol., 1845-1889. XII. History of British Columbia, one vol., 1792-1887. XIII. History of Alaska, 1730-1885, one vol. XIV. Supplemental Works, six vols. 1. California Pastoral, 1769 -1848; 2. California Inter Pocula, 1848-1856; 3 - 4. Popular Tribunals, two vols.; 5. Essays and Miscellany ; 6. Literary Industries. XV. Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth (Biographical section of the History, complete in seven vols.). XVI. The Book of the Fair. A history and description of the Columbian Exposition, in 1000 large and richly illustrated pages. XVII. The Book of Wealth. Companion to Book of the Fair. XVIII. The New Pacific. XIX. Some Cities and San Francisco.

The five volumes of "Native Races" were completed October 15, 1875. These volumes, which contain some of Bancroft's best work, may be considered as introductory to the great central work, "The History of the Pacific States," brought to completion in 1890 in twenty-eight volumes. Following the central work (not always chronologically) appeared the supplemental volumes. "The Chronicles of the Builders" made their appearance because of the necessity forced upon the author's mind of some method whereby the men who had made the country what it is should receive more adequate treatment than appeared possible in the History,—or, as the critic would say, more plausibly, because of expectation of gain from a commercial venture. "The Chronicles" have already