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662 roused by this daring scheme has revived also the interest in the long-agitated canal. It will not,  everything.' And so the man goes on with endless repetitions, and much good sense, often assuming a prophetic strain, wherein so much was said that some of it could not help but come to pass. He favors an equal distribution of the two great powers that move societies; namely, knowledge and wealth. Spain has ever been a horrid grind. If the Indians of Mexico were educated, they would be equal to the emergency of republicanism; the rules have ever been the enemies of the people. His essays on Mexico close with the year 1830.

Miguel Lerdo de Tejada, Comercio Esterior de Mexico desde la Conquista hasta hoy, Mexico, 1853, 4to, pp. 63, 11. 123, is a useful book, containing a statistical and historical account of the foreign commerce of Mexico. The historical portion of it begins with the barter of glass beads and cheap European articles for gold and golden ware, carried on with the Indians by the first Spanish visitors to the country. The gradual development and expansion of commerce is then traced out down to the year 1853, with all details connected therewith. The establishment, existence, and end of the Spanish convoy fleets, the imposition of duties from time to time, with a clear explanation of their designations and object, changes in regulations with regard to them made at different epochs, the values and specifications of exports and imports, and shipping, are the subjects which the author gives a good account of without being elaborate. Whenever he could obtain copies of official statistical documents, he appears to have done so, and as a supplement to his work produces no less than 55 such papers, which occupy by far the larger portion of his book.

Los Pueblos del Estado de Nayarit, á la raza indígena. . . San Luis de Lozada, 1870, 4to, pp. 24, is a small cuarto, being an appeal by the conservative party to the native races for the purpose of inciting them to overthrow the liberals. All the disasters that had come upon Mexico from the fall of Iturbide are attributed to this latter party's action. The liberals are charged with having bankrupted the country, sold territory, extorted forced loans, usurped church property, confiscated private property to the amount of $500,000,000, and exhibited every feature of maladministration. This address is signed by a number of citizens of the different pueblos of Jalisco.

Vicente E. Manero, Documentos Interesantes sobre Colonizacion, Mexico, 1878, 8vo, pp. 120, portraits and maps, is a collection of documents bearing upon the colonization question, gathered and arranged in chronological order by the publisher, who states, in his preface that many people are unaware of the different opinions expressed by enlightened men on this subject for want of such a collection. These documents supply a complete history of colonization in Mexico. The first bears the date of Dec. 31, 1771, and is an extract from the general report of the Marqués de la Sonera, Galvez, to Viceroy Bucarely. The dates of the succeeding ones are in consecutive order down to 1878.

Besides numerous government and official documents, of which mention has been already made in previous lists, reference is given to the following authorities for information on the institutional subjects of the four preceding chapters: the collections of Arrillaga, and Dublan and Lozano; Fernando VII., Decretos; Id., Doc: Niles' Reg., i., 1811, and succeeding volumes, with reference to the indices for Mexican matters; ''Id., S. Am. and Mex., i. passim; Córtes, Diar.; Id., Act. Pub., i.-ii.; Id., Col. Dec, i.-ii.; Nouv. Annales Voy., from 1819 to 1860; Busto, Estad. Rep. Mex., i.-ii.; Disposic. Varias, ii.-vi.; Bustamante, Ensayo, 99-100, 118-47, 184-6; Farías, Opusc. Aduan. Inter., S. L. Potosi, 1875, pp. 44; Mühlenpfordt, Méj., i. passim; Lerdo de Tejada, Apunt. Hist., no. v. 311-74; Id., Comer. Ester., Mex., 1853, pp. 63, 11 122, 1 sh.; Lempriere's Notes in Mex., 2-276, passim; Bustamante, Gab. Mex., i.-iv., MS.; Id., Voz de la Patria, i.-xiii., MS.; Id., Diario Mex., MS.; Id. . Hist. Sta Anna, passim; Id., Medidas Pacif., i.-ii., MS.; Id., Mem. Hist. Méx''., i