Lanterna Rally

Author: Peter H. Goldsmith

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-11-12

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781334249938

Excerpt from A Brief Bibliography of Books in English, Spanish and Portuguese, Relating to the Republics Commonly Called Latin American: With Comments Several lists of books relating to the southern coun tries of the Western Hemisphere have been published; but as they contain the titles of works of unequal value, and at the same time are entirely wanting in critical com ment, they have failed to supply the urgent demand that exists for guidance in buying and reading. To meet this want the present little book, which disclaims all pretense to completeness in the bibliographical sense, was hastily compiled. Amid the pressure of work the compiler found it necessary to confine himself to listing only such books as could be readily come at in the libraries of the city of New York. The method pursued in making up the list was as fol lows: first, to introduce the titles of widely heralded works, without regard to their merit, in order to discriminate be tween them; and, second, to bring forward less well known publications so as to draw attention to their excellencies. To have listed only such as could be commended would have failed to furnish that perspective which is essential to giving prominence to works of real merit. If it should occur to any that some of the comments are slightly censorious, what follows is offered as an explana tion and an excuse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.