Mexican Trails 
A Record of Travel in Mexico, 1904-= 
1907, and a Glimpse at the Life of 
The Mexican Indian 
The author spent three years in the country and is more 
competent than others to write about it. He has sympathy 
for the people and understanding of them.—Vew York Sun. 
Beyond its excellence as the characterization of a traveller 
of picturesque spots, is the insight of the book into social, 
political, religious, and human problems.— Boston Transcript. 
Mr. Kirkham is gifted with descriptive powers of a high 
order, and it is not bestowing too high praise when we say 
that at times he reminds us of Theophile Gautier. Here are 
some vivid bits of word-painting not unworthy of the great 
French master of prismatic prose. . . . The author of 
Mexican Trails travelled far and wide, away from main 
travelled roads, and saw much that is hidden from the 
ordinary traveller. A keen observer with an eye for the 
picturesque, the skill to record his impressions in a striking 
and realistic way, his book is a welcome addition to the 
literature dealing with a fascinating land.— Brooklyn Eagle. 
He did not view the country from the car window, but as 
a wanderer over its mountains and plateaus, from the Texan 
border to the Isthmus, and from one ocean to the other.— 
New York Times. 
He has seen with his own eyes; he has felt the witchery 
of the place through his own senses: he here reports what he 
has seen and heard and felt.—Mew York Herald. 
There are passages in Mexican Trails so irresistibly 
funny that only the hopeless misanthrope will be able to 
refrain from a hearty laugh; and there are other passages in 
which the author has described scenes characteristic or charm- 
ing with a deftness of word-painting and a grace of diction 
worthy of enthusiastic praise.—Providence Fournal, 
The author is not only an excellent observer, but is also 
a poet in his descriptions, The book is quite as entertaining 
