• - Bonn, 28s.), is • accordingly welcome. The book has
more than a local significance, for it shows us the same problems of colonization as still confront us elsewhere. LamL labour, and taxation were then, as now, the stumbling-blocks of cultural contact. The subjugation and the absorption of the Mapuche are vividly described, and the author gives a clear account of the tug-of-war between Spanish moderation and the ruthlessness of the Conquistadores. " I order, I beg. I implore pity for my new subjects, the Indians," cried Isabella of Spain ; but, " God .is very high up," retorted a Conquistador. " The King is very far away.; I am the master here." The earlier chapters summarize Mapuche culture, and, if the author is inclined to dogmatize where anthropologists fear to tread, it does not much matter. The seventeenth-century map has little practical value, and the bibliography omits the names of E. Boman, 0. H. Evans and T. A. Joyce. Misprints are too numerous, and Taeitus would have found it difficult to recognize a quotation ascribed to him. Superb decorations by Don• Luis Vargas Rosas embellish an
attractive book. • * * * *
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