*** Mr. Wells, the anther of the book on Brazil
reviewed in our last impression, wishes us to say that that review conveys a more pessimist conception of Brazil than is, in his opinion, contained in his book, and especially that native enterprise is more energetic than our reviewer had conceived,—the railways, for instance, being far oftener got up and completed by native than by foreign enterprise. The following passage, however, does not give a very optimist view of Brazil Still, there is latent a good solid material in these people. What is indispensable is a century of good example, and new European blood especially, and then these twelve millions of Brazilians will add their proper quota to the world's supplies. As it is, if a good half were wiped out, the world would be none the worse." (Vol. II., p. 228.)
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