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Excerpt from The Bancroft Library as Material for Pacific States History
The colonial period of Mexico has never been written, except in Spanish, and this very imperfectly, without research and critique, and altogether unworthy of translation. The repub lican period is more thoroughly covered by native writers, but the versions are so varied and biased in different directions, as to serve only for material to the impartial student. Foreign works are quite superficial, or cover chiefly certain periods. A connected history for the three epochs is therefore absolutely needed; and it can be written only by Mr Bancroft, whose collection of material for all is, beyond all comparison, the most complete in existence. Indeed, no writer so far has had access to a tenth of the volumes possessed by him. Agents in the chief book marts of the world have for over twenty years been on the watch to buy whatever was needful to fill gaps in his collection. Large as it was in 1869, Mr Bancroft then secured of the rarest and most valuable volumes from the andrade-maximilian library of Mexico, the-choicest and most complete in that fore most among latin-american States. Another lot he Obtained from a second smaller collection, lost to Mexico, like the pre ceding, through the same revolution. Caleb Cushing's library yielded many valuable books, as did a number of libraries sold during the last dozen years, including that of the Mexican savant, Ramirez, whose collection must rank next to the An drade.
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Excerpt from The Bancroft Library as Material for Pacific States History It has been deemed advisable, for several reasons, to deviate from strict numerical order in the publication of the several volumes of this History, and pursue a more chronological course. Thus, instead of continuing the annals of Central America, as presented in the second volume of the series, the fourth volume of the series is next issued, which is the first volume of the history of Mexico. The three succeeding volumes will bring the histories of Mexico and Central America, side by side, down to about 1800. These will be followed by several volumes on regions toward the north, for approximately the same period; for example, the earlier volumes on the North Mexican States, California, the Northwest Coast, and Oregon. New Mexico and Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Washington, Idaho and Montana, British Columbia and Alaska, may be issued at any time. This plan of publication has been adopted, not without careful deliberation. The reasons for such a plan are these: First, the territorial peculiarities of the subject seem to demand it. There is a natural order in which to present events, an order alike best for the author and for the student. So presented, the work, as a whole, constitutes a more continuous and unbroken story, and therefore better holds the attention of the reader. Again, this method gives to the people of the several sections, parts of their own history at much earlier dates than would be possible otherwise. Were the History of the Pacific States, in its several parts, issued strictly as one work, the volumes would be numbered in about the order of their proposed publication; but in that case they would not be so numbered that when completed the volumes of Central America, or of Mexico, or of California, etc., would stand together each as a complete history and separate set. This was regarded as most of all desirable; and in no other way than the one proposed could these ends both be att
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