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BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE following does not pretend to be a West Indian Bibliography, but it is a list of books which I have read and consulted as having a bearing upon the main subject or upon others of allied interest:

GENERAL BOOKS

Stanford's Compendium of Geography: Central and South America, Vol. 2-Central America and West Indies. Edited by Sir Clement Markham. London, 1901.

Our West Indian Neighbours; Camps in the Caribbees; Porto Rico and Its Resources. By Frederic A. Obar. Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de L'Amérique. By Père Labat.

1722.

History of the British Colonies in the West Indies. By Bryan Edwards.

1807.

Chronological History of the West Indies. Captain Thomas Southey. London, 1827.

The West Indies and the Spanish Main. By Anthony Trollope. London, 1860.

The English in the West Indies. By James Anthony Froude. London, 1888.

At Last. By Charles Kingsley.

Tom Cringle's Log. By Michael Scott.

Peter Simple. By Captain Marryat.

Report of the West Indian Royal Commission, 1897, with Appendix. By Sir Daniel Morris.

The Agriculture of the West Indies. By David D. Fairchild, Department of Agriculture, Bulletin 27 of The Bureau of Plant Industry.

The Reports and Bulletins of the Experiment Station of the Department of Agriculture at Mayaguez, Porto Rico.

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The Story of the West Indies. By Arnold Kennedy. London,

1898.

The Annals of the American Academy of Political Science. Cuba and Porto Rico, with other Islands of the West Indies. By Robert T. Hill. New York, 1903.

Many reports and bulletins published by the West Indian Committee of London. Many of these are written by Mr. Algernon Aspinwall, the secretary of this organisation, a distinguished and most reliable writer on all West Indian subjects.

The Colombian and Venezuelan Republics. By William L. Scruggs, formerly U. S. Minister to both countries. Cartas Americanas. By Juan Valera. Madrid.

Tropical America. By Alleyne Ireland. New York, 1899. De la Colonisation chez les Peuples Modernes. By P. Leroy Beaulieu. Paris, 1898.

The Lessons of Our War with Spain. By Captain Alfred T. Mahan, U. S. N. Boston, 1899.

The Expansion of England. By Professor Seeley. London, 1896.

Commercial America in 1907. Published by Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labour, Washington, showing the commerce, production, the transportation facilities, area, and population of the countries of North, South, and Central America and the West Indies.

White Capital and Coloured Labour. By Sir Sidney Olivier, C.M.G., Governor of the Island of Jamaica. Being Vol 4 of the Socialist Library. London, 1906.

Commercial Reports on Trade Conditions in the West Indies. By Mr. Charles M. Pepper, Special Agent of the Department of Commerce and Labour.

"Latin America" and very many other publications, official and unofficial, from the very able pen of the Hon. John Barrett,

formerly United States Minister to Colombia, Argentina, and Panama, and now Director of the International Bureau of American Republics, also known as the Pan-American Union.

Tropical America. By I. N. Ford.

The United States as a World Power. By Archibald Cary Coolidge.

Volcan-Gebiete Central Amerikas. By Dr. Sapper.

Growth of Our Foreign Policy. Atlantic Monthly, March, 1900. By Former Secretary of State Richard Olney.

HAYTI AND SANTO DOMINGO

Hayti, or the Black Republic. By Sir Spencer St. John. London, 1889.

Where Black Rules White. By Hesketh Pritchard. London, 1900.

Neger-Republik, Hist.-Polit.-Blätter, Vol. 132, Munich, 1903. The Writings of Julian Prevost de Limonade, a Haytian historian, of some value.

Hayti, Her History and Her Detractors. By M. Léger, formerly Haytian Minister to Washington. A not very successful piece of special pleading.

Bishop Holly's numerous fugitive writings on the subject of Hayti.

Secret History of the Horrors of Santo Domingo, etc., etc.

By Miss Hassall. Philadelphia, 1808.

Remarks on Hayti as a Place of Settlement for AfricAmericans and on the Mulatto as the Race for the Tropics. By Benjamin Peter Hunt. 1860.

The Pine and Palm. Edited by James Ridpath. Boston, 1862. A short-lived periodical devoted to the encouragement of emigration of American negroes to Hayti.

Santo Domingo, Past and Present. By Samuel Hazard. 1873. The Dominican Republic. An interesting and correct sketch of

the country, published by the Department of Public Works, Santo Domingo City, 1907.

The numerous writings of Frederick A. Ober on Dominican

subjects.

Au Pays des Généraux. By M. Texier. Paris, 1900.

JAMAICA

Jamaica One Hundred Years Ago. Lady Nugent's Journal. History of Jamaica. By Bryan Edwards.

White Capital and Coloured Labour. By Sir Sidney Olivier. The Handbook of Jamaica. London, 1908.

PORTO RICO

Porto Rico and Its Resources. By Frederic Ober.

Report on Island of Porto Rico. By H. V. Carroll. Washington, 1899.

The annual reports of Governor Regis Post, 1907-'08. Reports of the Insular Bureau of the War Department.

FRENCH WEST INDIES

Two Years in the French West Indies. By Lafcadio Hearn. Harper's, 1902.

Mont Pelée and the Tragedy of Martinique. By A. Heil

prin. 1902.

La France Coloniale. By Rambaud. Paris.

BARBADOS

The Negro in Barbados. By Walter Merivale. British Empire Series.

Cavaliers and Roundheads of Barbados, 1650. By N. Darnell Davis. Georgetown, B. G.

DANISH AND DUTCH ISLANDS

Statistique des Antilles Danoises. Copenhagen, 1907. Statistique Coloniale des Antilles Hollandaises. Amsterdam,

1907.

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