Mexico

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1. ROME. Arthur Gilman, M.A. 2. THE JEWS. Prof. J. K. Hosmer. 3. GERMANY. Rev. S. Baring-Gould, M.A. 4. CARTHAGE. Prof. A. J. Church. 5. ALEXANDER'S EMPIRE. Prof J. P. Mahaffy. 6. THE MOORS IN SPAIN. Stanley Lane-Poole. 7. ANCIENT EGYPT. Canon Rawlinson. 8. HUNGARY. Prof. A. Vambéry. 9. THE SARACENS. A. Gilman, M.A. 10. IRELAND. Hon. Emily Lawless. 11. CHALDÆA. Z. A. Ragozin. 12. THE GOTHS. Henry Bradley. 13. ASSYRIA. Z. A. Ragozin. 14. TURKEY. Stanley Lane-Poole. 15. HOLLAND. Prof. J. E. Thorold Rogers. 16. MEDIÆVAL FRANCE. Prof. Gustave Masson. 17. PERSIA. S. G. W. Benjamin. 18. PHŒNICIA. Canon Rawlinson. 19. MEDIA. Z. A. Ragozin. 20. THE HANSA TOWNS. Helen Zimmern. 21. EARLY BRITAIN. Prof. A. J. Church. 22. THE BARBARY CORSAIRS. Stanley Lane-Poole. 23. RUSSIA. W. R. Morfill, M.A. 24. THE JEWS UNDER ROMAN RULE. W. D. Morrison. 25. SCOTLAND. John Mackintosh, LL.D. 26. SWITZERLAND. Mrs. Lina Hug and Richard Stead. 27. MEXICO. Susan Hale.

THE CONVENT OF CAPUCHINAS. (LAST PRISON OF MAXIMILIAN.)
London T. FISHER UNWIN PATERNOSTER SQUARE NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS MDCCCXCI Entered at Stationers' Hall By T. FISHER UNWIN Copyright by G. P. Putnam's Sons (For the United States of America).

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For a number of these illustrations the publishers are indebted to the courtesy of Messrs. Hochette & Co., publishers of Le Voyage au Mexique, by Jules Leclercq.

The steamer stops, and we are lying off Vera Cruz, in the Gulf of Mexico. Half a mile off, the long, low shore stretches north and south, with the white town upon it, flat roofs making level lines on the houses glaring in the morning sunlight, domes and church towers rising above the rest; glimpses of bright green tree-tops are to be seen, but outside the city all is barren and waste. The plain behind rolls up, however, and the background is the peak of snow-capped Orizaba, silent, lofty, 17,356 feet above our level.