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devoted wife of Allan Gordon, the white adventurer who is the hero 

 of Bodway's story. 



From Dutch Guiana I know of only one story relating to our 

 subject: Tokosi of het Indiaansche meisje; Historisch-romantisch 

 tafereel. It was written by Frangois Henri Rikken, a Catholic mis- 

 sionary, and published in 1901 at Paramaribo. 



On account of the literary form in which they are rendered, a small 

 collection of delightful folk-tales from the Andine regions in Peru 

 and Bolivia must be mentioned. It is the Dromsagor fran Anderna, 

 written by Erland Nordenskiold, and illustrated by Hjalmar Eldh 

 (Stockholm, 1916). This valuable contribution to Aymara folk-lore 

 completes the list of works here under review. 



CONCLUSION. 



To summarize: Regardless of whether the works briefly reviewed 

 here have any literary merit, it appears that of the thirty-seven 

 authors noted, not more than ten, i. e., a little over one-fourth part, 

 can be classed as having real ethnologic and geographic value. These 

 are for North America : Cushing, Bandelier, Miss Proctor, Mrs. Ryan, 

 Remington, and Curtis, besides Bessels for the Eskimo; for South 

 America : Zeballos, Rodway, and Nordenskiold. Among these the 

 most prominent place must be assigned to Cushing, Bandelier, and 

 Bessels; the second to Miss Proctor, Remington and Curtis, Zebal- 

 los, and Nordenskiold. 



It is very difficult to form an opinion and to classify the other 

 writers immediately following, such as Cooper, Simms, Longfellow, 

 Mayne Reid, and Miller. Generally speaking, from a scientific point 

 of view, their work has only a limited value, as they deal more in 

 ideal descriptions of Indians in general than of Indians belonging 

 to special tribes. 



The same holds good for the works which are more or less his- 

 torical or poetically descriptive, including those of Irving, Whit- 

 tier, von Chamisso, Curtius, Wallace, Mair, Helen Hunt Jackson, 

 and Mollhausen. 



The works of all the other writers, including Brown, de Chateau- 

 briand, Aimard, and Ferry, have either very little ethnologic value, 

 or oftener still, are absolutely worthless. 



The value of the very best works here mentioned is enhanced by 

 the fact that the Indians and the conditions therein described belong 

 for the most part to the irrevocable past. The Far West — nowadays 

 a mere meaningless expression — with its romance and terrors, has 

 long since ceased to exist. In South America, too, conditions are 

 rapidly changing, and the time draws near in which, the wilderness 

 and the Indian warrior and hunter will be but a myth. The ap- 



