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The great intellectual gifts which distinguish and recommend the historian Cesar Cantú have properly earned for him the merited reputation he enjoys in the civilized world; and we, who have always been his sincere admirers, are to-day the first to acknowledge that universal opinion. It is precisely because of his fame as a historian that we lament the fact that Cesar Cantú, when referring to matters relating to the Mexican Republic, whether he narrates the history of the past or treats of contemporaneous events, has not adhered to that historical accuracy which it is his bounden duty to observe, and which impartial criticism should not alter in any way.

"In Mexico"—says Cesar Cantú, in his work entitled THE HISTORY OF THE LAST THIRTY YEARS—"while Spain was warring against Napoleon I, the nobles and the clergy unfurled the banner of the ancient Aztec monarchs, the white and blue standard of the Virgin of Guadalupe, and separated from the mother country, etc.