Mexico of the :Ifericans. By Lewis Spence. (Pitman. Os. net.)
—Mexico, except as a refuge for Gorman plotters, is at present in the hackgrotuid, but any day She may give liar neighbours fresh cause for complaint. Mr. Spence knows Mexico well, and is unusually sympathetic towards her, so that his book, though somewhat sketchy, is worth reading. Ho describes the social life, in which the old Castilian-Moorish standards peretet ; the sports ; the agricultural and mining industries ; and the condition of the aborigines, Aztecs and others, who are still very nunieroue and retain their primitive usages. Ho coneludes with a fiddle detailed history of the revolution since the fall of Diaz, in which he maintains that Cerranza is of a very different stump from Villa, or from the brigand Zapata, the "Attila of the South," in whom the German refugees have a nom after their own heart.
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