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the Spanish Emperor, Carlos
V. These have been recently retranslated into, and published in, English
in two excellent volumes:
The Letters of Cortes to Charles V. F. C. MacNutt. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
London. 1908.
The most famous book on the Conquest is that of Prescott, the
American historian, and this never loses its charm, although to the
traveller who knows the country it may, at times, seem somewhat
highly drawn.
Prescott's Conquest of Mexico. 3 vols. London. 1845.
The writers which, after Cortes, were the participators in the Conquest
or contemporary therewith, and upon whose writings all other accounts
are based, are those of:
Bernal Diaz, Author of the Verdadera Historia de la Conquista. 1858.
Ixtlilochitl, Aztec historian.
Other famous contemporary writers whose works also furnish material
for historians were:
Bartolome de las Casas, Francisco Lopez de Gomara, Gonzalo Oviedo

y Valdez, Bernardino de Sahagun, Motolinia, Peter Martyr, Antonio de
Herrera. The works of all these writers are extant, principally in
Spanish, and they were written in the sixteenth century.
In the seventeenth century Juan de Torquemada wrote, and in the
nineteenth numerous works appeared upon Mexico. Among these may
be mentioned those of Manuel Orozco y Berra, Manuel Icazbalceta
Raminez, all modern Mexicans. Other authors, whether of historical or
other books and at varying epochs, are:
Clavigero, Duran, Tezozomoc, Camargo, Siguenza, Pizarro, Acosta,
Gage, Lorenzana, Olarte, Vetancourt, Solis, Cavo, Landa, Robertson,
Irving, Humboldt, Helps, Bancroft, Kingsborough.
Archaeological and Ethnological works are represented by the
following:
Bancroft, Native Races of the Pacific States. 5 vols. New York. 1874-6.
Bandelier, The Art of War among the Ancient Mexicans.
Bandelier, Distribution and Land Tenure.
Bandelier, Social Organisation.
Bandelier, Archaeological Tour.
Bandelier, Indians of the South-west, U.S.
Batres, Cuadro Arquelogico de la Republica Mexicana; and other
works, including Teotihuacan.
Blake, Catalogue of Archaeological Collection of the Museum of
Mexico, &c.
Brinton, The American Race.
Brinton, Ancient Phonetic Alphabets of Yucatan, &c.

Chavers, Antiguedades Mexicanas.
Chavers, Mexico a traves de los siglos.
Charnay, Ancient Cities of the New World.
Garcia Cubas, Cuadro Geografico, &c.
Holmes, Archaeological Studies among the Ancient Cities of Mexico.
Maudsley, Biologia Centralia-Americana.
Kingsborough, famous work on Mexican Antiquities, &c.
Penafiel, Monumentos del arte Mexicano Antiguo. Berlin. 1890.
Payne, History of the New World. Oxford. 1899.
Starr, Maya Writing, &c. Chicago. 1895.
And many other pamphlets and books in English, Spanish, French, and
German.
For a fuller list of these, see the excellent volume on Mexico of the
International Bureau of the American Republics. Washington. 1904.
Of books on mining an excellent volume for reference is:
Southworth's Mines of Mexico.
Of mining and natural resources generally, a large complete work has
been issued in English, Spanish, and French, entitled:
El Florecimiento de Mexico. Mexico. 1906.
This work is published in Mexico, written by various authors, under the
patronage of the Government. It is a valuable book of reference, but
somewhat prolix, and the type is small and the volume unwieldy. After
the manner of books issued in Spanish-American countries, too much

space is taken up with adulations of public men. There are no less than
four full-page portraits of President Diaz in it.
Other general works are:
Mexico and the United States. Abbott. New York. 1869.
Guia General de la Republicas Mexicana. Mexico. 1899.
Barrett, Standard Guide to Mexico. Mexico. 1900.
Baedeker, The United States and Mexico. Leipzig. 1899.
Bancroft, A Popular History of the Mexican People. London. 1887.
Bancroft, Resources and Development of Mexico. San Francisco. 1893.
Baianconi, Le Mexique. Paris. 1899.
Brocklehurst, Mexico To-day. London. 1883.
Chevalier, Le Mexique Ancien et Moderne. Paris. 1886.
Congling, Mexico and the Mexicans. New York. 1883.
Garcia, Mexico, &c. Mexico. 1893.
Lummis, The Awakening of a Nation. New York. 1893.
Ober, Travels in Mexico. Boston. 1884.
Martin, Mexico of the Twentieth Century. London. 1908.
Gadow, Travels in Southern Mexico. London. 1908.
Tweedie, Mexico as I Saw It. London. 190?
Tweedie. Porfirio Diaz. London. 1905.
A. H. Noll. A Short History of Mexico. Chicago. 1903.

Romero, Mexico and the United States. New York. 1898.
Statesman's Year-book. London.
Camp Fires on Desert and Lava. Hornaday. London. 1909.
And numerous others in French, German, and English, including
various guide-books and pamphlets, scientific and otherwise.
The Mexican Year-book, London, 1908, is published by McCorquodale
& Co. The work is written under the auspices of the Mexican
Government. It is full of statistics and information, and forms a very
useful work of reference.
Modern Mexico, a monthly illustrated paper of high-class, issued in
Mexico and St. Louis.
The Mexican Herald, a daily paper published in English in Mexico, is
an excellent journal of current events.

INTRODUCTION
"From what I have seen and heard concerning the similarity between
this country and Spain, its fertility, its extent, its climate, and in many
other features of it, it seemed to me that the