Excerpt from The Founding of the Review The writer asked Doctor Justin H. Smith to preside, and Doctor James A. Robertson (not to be confused with William Spence Robertson, who was still in South America) to act as secretary. The dinner over, the writer was called upon to outline the project for the Review. He did so, substantially as has been indicated thus far in this article. In commenting upon the communication signed by Doctor William Spence Robertson and himself he made the following additional suggestions: attention ...
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Excerpt from The Founding of the Review The writer asked Doctor Justin H. Smith to preside, and Doctor James A. Robertson (not to be confused with William Spence Robertson, who was still in South America) to act as secretary. The dinner over, the writer was called upon to outline the project for the Review. He did so, substantially as has been indicated thus far in this article. In commenting upon the communication signed by Doctor William Spence Robertson and himself he made the following additional suggestions: attention should be paid to social, economic, and political (including diplomatic) history as well as to the mere external narration of events, and some con temporary materials might be used from time to time; Hispanic America should be_the principal field, but that ought to be inter preted as including the entire Caribbean area and those parts of the United States formerly under Spain and Mexico for the pe riods prior to their annexation to this country; articles on the Philippines, in (so far as they related to things Spanish, might also be accepted; nevertheless, the review should in no sense compete with periodicals of history embracing the same areas within the United States, but, on the contrary, there should be a spirit of co-operation between the several boards of editors, for the new Review would rarely desire the articles which the others would prefer, and vice versa. Articles in French should be wel comed as well as those in Spanish and Portuguese. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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