426 GREEN, JOHN RICHARD. 



GUATEMALA. 



the autumn he betook himself to Mentone, 

 where he seemed to have taken a new lease of 

 life. He wrought with unflagging industry 

 upon "The Making of England," a work which 

 in the judgment of scholars is his masterpiece. 

 The period of the Saxon Heptarchy has been 

 dismissed by other historians as a time marked 

 by events no more worthy of record than the 

 obscure " lightings of kites and 

 crows " ; but Mr. Green's stud- 

 ies had wrought in him a firm 

 conviction that in those dim 

 ages were planted the seeds of 

 English character and of Eng- 

 lish history ; that the fierce 

 struggles of the Heptarchy 

 were in truth "the birth - 

 throes of national life."' His 

 theory is, that the Celtic races 

 whom Caesar found in Britain 

 were exterminated by the suc- 

 cessive tides of the Teutonic 

 invaders. A contrary theory 

 is, that they were not exter- 

 minated, or even driven off, 

 but were amalgamated with 

 and absorbed into the new- 

 comers. In either case the fact 

 remains unquestionable that the 

 Celts, as a race, vanished from 

 the southern portion of the 

 island, and the civil institutions grew up to be 

 not Celtic, but Anglican or English. A people 

 was born then and there who have not only 

 held the land of their development, but have 

 spread themselves as a distinctive race over new 

 worlds. In that ante-Norman period was the 

 " making " not merely of England but of North 

 America and of the colonies, in time to become 

 nations, of Australia and New Zealand. In 

 the development of this idea the author has 

 pnt forth the highest qualities of the historian. 

 In nothing is the special value of the work 

 more marked than in the descriptions of the 

 physical features of the England of the Hep- 

 tarchy. The first volume of the " Making of 

 England " was published barely a year before 

 the author's death. Its high value was at once 

 recognized, and it was immediately republished 

 in New York; his work being as highly ap- 



Sreciated in America as in his own country. 

 y incessant work, he just succeeded in finish- 

 ing, before his death, a volume entitled " The 

 Conquest, of England," which was published 

 posthumously, and forms, properly, a sequel to 

 Ms " Making of England." 



Mr. Green was no mere recluse student, but 

 took an eager interest in all the great social, 

 political, and literary questions of the day. 

 There seemed to be no limit to his versatility, 

 and his conversation was as brilliant as his writ- 

 ing. The pleasant house in Kensington square, 

 which was his London home during the sum- 

 mer months of several years, was the resort of 

 men who are eminent in public affairs arid in 

 art and letters. 



GUATEMALA, a republic of Central America. 

 Area, 121,140 square kilometres; population, 

 1,252,497. The President is Rufino Barrios, 

 elected May 9, 1873, since which time his 

 term of office has been prolonged by decree of 

 the Constitutional Assembly, Oct. 23, 1876, 

 and he was re-elected March 15, 1880, for six 

 years. The Cabinet is composed of the fol- 



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lowing ministers : Foreign Affairs, Dr. F. Cruz; 

 Interior, Dr. C. Diaz Merida; War, Gen. J. M. 

 Barrundia ; Public Instruction, Sefior D. San- 

 chez ; Agriculture and Public Credit, in charge 

 of the sub-Secretary of State, Dr. R. A. Sala- 

 zar ; Public Works, Sefior M. Herrera. 



The Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plen- 

 ipotentiary to the United States is Sefior L. A. 

 Batres, and the Consul-Geceral at New York 

 is Sefior J. Baiz. 



The United States Minister Plenipotentiary 

 to the five Central American Republics (resi- 

 dent in Guatemala) is Hon. H. C. Hall, and 

 the United States Consul at Guatemala City, 

 Dr. F. H. Titus. 



Finances. The amounts and the various 

 branches of the national revenue and expen- 

 ditures for the fiscal year 1882 were as shown 

 in the table below : 



REVENUE. 



Balance from former years 



Keal-estate tax 



Money collected for release from military service. 



Turnpike-tolls 



Sundries 



Import duties 



Export duties 



Tonnage dues 



Stamp tax 



Slaughter-house tax 



Milling-tax 



Salt-tax 



Tax on inheritances and donations 



Patent-tax 



Tax on spirits, tobacco, saltpeter, and powder 



Special state revenues 



Sundry collections 



Loans and deposits 



Total... ... $<M507,6T9 



13,925 



34,881 



4,138 



1,698.470 



66,685 



8,960 



114,222 



99.9C5 



47,198 



27,455 



11,514 



53,530 



1,636,280 



360,905 



185,457 



