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tlon of what history is, hiR narrative being little more than a brief 

 account of the various viceroys, generals, presidents, and other 

 administrators, that Mexico has at different times had. He gives 

 no information of any value about the condition of the people at 

 any period ; he tells us little or nothing about the civih'zation of 

 the Aztecs, though he relates a good deal of their legendary his- 

 tory; he fails to describe tbe mode in which the Spaniards gov- 

 erned the country, and he leaves us completely in the dark as to 

 the history of legislation and the moral and material development 

 of the Mexican nation. A good history of Mexico is still a desid- 

 eratum. 



— An important work by Dr. Daniel G. Brinton will be pub- 

 lished in a few weeks by N. D. C. Hodges, 47 Lafayette Place, 

 New York. The book, which will be entitled "Races and Peo- 

 ples," will be a review of the whole domain of ethnography, with 

 particular attention to the white or European race, the Arj an 

 peoples, their origin and distribution. The latest opinions of the 

 leading European scholars have been consulted, but the work is 

 largely the result of independent research, and does not follow any 

 especial school of ethnographers. 



— G. P. Putnam's Sons have in press for early publication 

 "The Trees of Northeastern America," by Charles S. Neuhall, 

 with an introductory note by Professor N. L. Britton of Columbia 

 College, vv-hich describes all the native trees of the northern 

 United States east of the Mississippi, as well as mentions the more 

 important naturalized species, with illustrations made from tra- 

 cings of tbe leaves of the various trees; "Gustavus Adolphus and 

 the Struggle of Protestantism for Existence," by C. R. L. Fletcher, 

 in the Heroes of the Nations Series; "The Jews under the Ro- 

 mans," by the Rev. M. Douglas Morrison, in tbe Story of the Na- 

 tions Series; "Dust and its Dangers," by Dr. T. M. Prudden, writ- 

 ten with the purpose of informing people, in simple language. 



what the real danger is of acquiring serious disease, especially 

 consumption, by means of dust laden air, and how this danger 

 may he avoided; "Among Moths and Butterflies," by Julia P. 

 Ballard, a well-written book, on an interesting subject, for 

 young people; and a new and popular edition of "Seven Thousand 

 Words often Mispronounced," which has proved one of the most 

 successful of Phyfe's books. They have also under way "Tabular 

 Views of Universal History." 



— The Nation, with its issue of July 3, enters on its twenty- 

 sixth year of publication. It was started with the intention of 

 supplying the educated public of America with political and lit- 

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 been. The Nation took a perfectly independent stand from the 

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 greater depth of thought than those of most American papers, 

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