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CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| CHAPTER XXV. | |
| SOCIETY. | |
| 1887 | |
| Evolution of a New Race — Indians and Meztizos — Climate and Epidemics — Benevolent Institutions — The Mexican of the Present Time — Slavery and Peonage — Negroes and Leperos — Orders and Titles of Nobility — Social Manners and Customs — Artisans and Rancheros — Condition of Mexican Women — Marital Relations — Innovations on the National Costume — Holidays and Festivals — Observance of Holy-Week — Gambling — Theatres and Country Amusements — Horseracing — Popular Drives and Walks — Highwaymen — Travelling in the Interior — Immigration Unsuccessful — Relative Positions of Foreigners in Mexico | 598 |
| CHAPTER XXVI. | |
| EDUCATION, SCIENCE, ARTS, AND LITERATURE. | |
| 1521—1887. | |
| Instruction of the Indians and Mestizos — Schools and Colleges — Measures for Developing Education — Professional Instruction — Scientific Attainment — Creole Unsteadiness — Observatories — Fine and Mechanical Arts — Museum — First Press — Early Books and Periodicals — Libraries and Literary Societies — Prose Writing — Newspapers — Historians — Oratory — Poetry — Mexican Peculiarities — Reflections on the Present and Future Position of Mexico | 630 |
| INDEX. | |
| Index | 695 |
