Mexico

<p>The purpose of this work is to treat of Mexico as a topographical and political entity based upon a study of the country from travel and observation; a method such as has found favour in my book upon Peru. The method of viewing a country as a whole with its people topography and general conditions in natural relation to each other is one which commands growing acceptance in a busy age. I have been able to observe much of the actual life and character of Spanish-American countries from considerable travel therein. Both Mexico and Peru ever lured me on as seeming to hold for me some El Dorado and if I have not reaped gold as the Conquistadores did there are nevertheless other matters of satisfaction accruing to the traveller from his journeys in those splendid territories of mountain and forest.</p><p>Mexico superfluous to say is not part of South America although this book appears in this series. But it is part of that vast Spanish-speaking New World whose development holds much of interest; and which may occupy a more important part in coming years than is generally thought of at present. The Author</p>