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 to all who read these volumes. But they possess the further merit of being by far the most correct interpretations of Ancient Mexican costumes, ornaments, and warlike equipment, which have yet supplemented the text of a history of that country. I know the many weeks of real research which Mr. Keith Henderson spent at the British Museum, collecting details from manuscripts, sculptures and pottery, and archaeological works. From the material thus laboriously acquired, a vivid imagination and a cunning hand have produced upon the work of a great historian a pictorial commentary which is not only in every way worthy of it, but even adds to its value.

T. A. JOYCE.