Latin America: Its Rise and Progress

ITS RISE AND PROGRESS
F. GARCIA CALDERON
WITH A PREFACE BY RAYMOND POINCARÉ
Of the French Academy, President of the French Republic
TRANSLATED BY BERNARD MIALL
WITH A MAP AND 34 ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 597-599 FIFTH AVENUE 1915
MONSIEUR ÉMILE BOUTROUX
( of the Institute of France )
Permit me to offer you this book as a mark of admiration and gratitude. Often of an evening, in the sober hour of twilight, hearing you comment upon a page of Plato or a line of Goethe, or explain to me with unfailing geniality and marvellous lucidity the troubles of the present day, I have gained a fuller understanding of the magnificent radiance of the French genius; and always, on leaving you, I have found pleasure in repeating the thought of Emerson, of the Emerson whom you love, concerning the utility of great men: They make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious.
F. G. C.
PARIS, November , 1911.