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DURING a recent tour round the world Mr. Brocklehurst turned from the beaten track in the United States southwards to Mexico, where he spent seven profitable months in the capital and neighbourhood in the year 1881. Since the suspension of our diplomatic relations with that country in 1860, great difficulties have been felt in procuring accurate information regarding its internal relations. All the more welcome will be this pleasantly written volume, which gives a far brighter picture of the Republic and its prospects than its most sanguine syrnpathisers may have anticipated. Since the expulsion of the French in 1867, profound peace has prevailed both at home and abroad, interrupted only by a few feeble and aimless pronunciamientos in the years 1868 and 1869 signs of moral and material progress are everywhere perceptible; security for life and property is being extended from the capitals to the remotest districts of the several states; the whole country is already covered with a network of railways connected ira the north with the United States system, and affording several alternative routes between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; lastly, the Liberal party, which has guided the destinies of the Republic for over twenty years, has succeeded in establishing free institutions on a firm basis. “I have every confidence,” writes our author, “that the favourable terms in which I have spoken of the country will not hereafter be found to be exaggerations; that my ideas as to the future prosperity of Mexico being early realised are true, and that such ideas are held by most of its leading men.” And he adds that the time has come for England to bring about “a reconciliation with a country, in whose aid her influence and power could be so beneficially exerted”
Mexico To-day.
By Thomas Unett Brocklehurst. (London: Murray, 1883.)
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K., A. Mexico To-day . Nature 27, 503–504 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027503a0
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