READINGS FROM MODERN [1900s] MEXICAN AUTHORS

by Starr, Frederick

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Chicago:: Open Court Publishing,, 1904. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/labels; top edges gilt; spine ends worn; cover tips bumped; tear in contents page repaired; otherwise good.. With 29 b&w pen-and-ink portraits of authors. Starr (1858-1933), anthropologist; organized work of--& taught at--Univ. of Chicago 1892-1923; traveled widely for anthropological studies. ||| Offers short biographies of 29 contemporary Mexican authors who wrote about geography, history, biography, public questions, literature, drama, narrative & fiction that appeared in literary journals or newspapers. Starr printed brief selections from each author; `One demand made of all the material [selected] is that it shall show Mexico, Mexican life, Mexican thought... every selection is Mexican in topic & color; together the selections form a series of Mexican pictures painted by Mexican hands.'