Of recent years there has been a great output of literature bearing on Mexico- most of it, unfortunately, of the tourist type, distorted and jaundiced. There is, indeed, real need for a reliable popular history of Mexico, and, notwithstanding the two books of Mr. Noll, the need is still unsatisfied. His second, which has to do with the nineteenth century, is in one sense an expansion of that part of the 'Short History' covering the same period, and very much improves it. In the 'Short History' the author set out to write a ...
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Of recent years there has been a great output of literature bearing on Mexico- most of it, unfortunately, of the tourist type, distorted and jaundiced. There is, indeed, real need for a reliable popular history of Mexico, and, notwithstanding the two books of Mr. Noll, the need is still unsatisfied. His second, which has to do with the nineteenth century, is in one sense an expansion of that part of the 'Short History' covering the same period, and very much improves it. In the 'Short History' the author set out to write a guide-book: "he at first thought of offering his work to the tourists in Mexico, to aid them in enjoying the sights of that country. This idea was abandoned after the manuscript was in the hands of the publishers, in deference to the opinions of others that the book would be beneficial to the public generally, no less in need of such a history than the tourist." The result is that we have neither guidebook nor history, but a potpourri of unnamable stuff. The work was first issued in 1890, and this purports to be a revised edition; but how it ever came to be printed 11 second time is the wonder of it. It is proof, at least, that the public has more interest in our neighboring republic than discrimination. Mr. Noll sets out to portray the origins of the aborigines of Mexico, tracing the Aztecs from the "cliff-houses of Colorado and New Mexico" to the valley of Mexico, where. having seen "an eagle standing upon a nopal (prickly-pear cactus) strangling a serpent," they founded the city of Tenochtitlan-afterward the City of Mexico! From this one can judge how successfully this early and fascinating story is disposed of. The Conquest is discussed with no insight into the general history of the period. To attempt the narrative of it without some knowledge of the relation it bore to the expeditions that everywhere penetrated the coasts of the New World, from Labrador to the Orinoco, is to miss the mark completely. Separate it, if you please, from the larger world movement of exploration and colonization, but give us its setting in the history of Spain; it will lose none of its glamour. But even this is denied us. -- The Nation , Volume 78
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