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Mary Elizabeth Blake, Margaret Frances Sullivan
Mexico, picturesque, political, progressive
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4064066443559
Table of Contents
Literary Mexico: A Group of Novels
PART I
PICTURESQUE MEXICO
chapter | page | |
I — | Into the Sun Land | 7 |
II — | Glimpses of a New World | 27 |
III — | The City of Mexico | 54 |
IV — | Through Lanes and Highways | 76 |
V — | On the Southern Slope | 95 |
VI — | Shrines and Pilgrimages | 117 |
VII — | Literary Mexico: A Group of Novels | 133 |
VIII — | Blossoms of Verse | 159 |
PART IITable of Contents POLITICAL AND PROGRESSIVE MEXICO Table of Contents | ||
IX — | From Conquest to Independence | 173 |
X — | Constitution and Government | 191 |
XI — | Religion and Education | 199 |
XII — | Revenue and its Application | 213 |
Into the Sun Land
MEXICO
PICTURESQUE POLITICAL PROGRESSIVE
CHAPTER I
INTO THE SUN LAND
In these days, when a passion for travelling has become one of the manias of American civilization, and people seek the excitement of novelty in despite of difficulty and danger, it is not strange to find that fashion so tempers fancy as to set the tides of desire flowing in special directions, while equal or greater attractions are left high and dry outside the current of sentimental regard. Thus it comes to pass, that, where thousands cross the seas to gain a more or less superficial acquaintance with the main points of European scenery, one could reckon within the limits of as many hundreds those who become in any degree familiar with the wonderful beauty which Nature has lavished upon our own land. It is evident that many instincts of love, of remembrance, and of affection naturally go to increase pilgrimages to the shrines of the Old World. But, when every allowance has been made, there still remains an unaccountable lack of curiosity and knowledge concerning that portion of the