7. Coleccion legislativa: leyes, decretos y resoluciones. This contains the laws, decrees, and treaties of the republic. The fifty-three volumes already published are complete to 1916.

8. Cuban census office. Report on the census of Cuba, 1899. Washington. 1900. Also published in Spanish at Washington in 1899.

Although issued under the auspices of the United States War Department, this may properly be considered a Cuban government publication. It is the first of three very important volumes embodying the results of the censuses of 1899, 1907, and 1919. Taken together they represent one of the most useful sources of information that can be found. All three were carefully and capably prepared. See items 9 and 13 below.

9. Dirección general del censo. Census of the republic of Cuba, 1919. Havana. 1920. An edition in Spanish was published at Havana in 1921.

See comment at item 8 supra; also supra, p. 608, n. 27.

10. Gaceta oficial de la república.

Issued daily except Sundays and holidays, and complete from 1902 to date. It contains all laws, decrees, and regulations of the republic, besides decisions of the Supreme Court and other important matter.

11. Jurisprudencia del tribunal supremo.

This has to do with cases before the Supreme Court. Thirty-eight volumes have thus far been issued, covering the period to 1907.

12. Memoria de la administración del presidente de la república.

Following the practice adopted by Governor Magoon, the Cuban government in 1909 inaugurated this set of annual reports of the President. Each volume covers the political year, from July 1st to the following June 30. The set embraces a digest of all administration activities, and is complete to date.

13. Oficina del censo. Cuba: population, history and resources. . . census of Cuba, taken in the year 1907. |

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Washington. 1909. First issued in Spanish, at Washington in 1908.

See comment at item 8, supra.

14. Report of provisional administration.

2v. Havana.

1908-1909. Also published in Spanish at Havana in the same years.

The two volumes cover respectively from October 13, 1906, to December 1, 1907, and from the lastnamed date to December 1, 1908. These record the activities of the United States provisional government under Governor Magoon.

This is the Senate publication paralleling that mentioned supra in item 4 for the House.

16. Senado. Memoria de los trabajos realizados.

In like manner this parallels the similar publication for the House noted supra in item 5.

B. United States

There is a vast wealth of material about Cuba in United States government publications. A moderately careful survey covering the period from May 20, 1902, to 1923 revealed some 825 sets of papers totaling 11,544 closely printed pages, and it is noteworthy that the amount of material published about Cuba is increasing in volume. That is particularly true of matter having to do with trade and investment conditions, although political documents, notably those involving claims, especially Spanish claims, also bulk large. The Taft and Bacon Report, drawn upon very heavily for the data in chapters VIII and IX, is one important single item. There is scant point in reciting here the various sets of United States government publications, but some mention ought to be made of the very important work being done in recent years by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, of the Department of Commerce. This gets out daily consular and trade reports, occasional reports of special agents and commercial attachés, and frequently appearing trade information bul

They are set forth in ample de- and Frederick Jackson Turner (first tail in the well-known Guide to the published in 1896, and in various edistudy of American history by Ed- tions since then). ward Channing, Albert Bushnell Hart,

letins. While Cuba is only one country out of many dealt with by the Bureau, there is no better source of information concerning economic affairs in the island republic than in these publications. The bulletins issued by the PanAmerican Union are also noteworthy, as much of their information is derived from consular reports. On the other hand, some of the material in this set is in the nature of pleasant propaganda. Of special note among its publications is the set entitled American constitutions, in which (in v. II, pp. 109-154) one may find the Cuban Constitution in both Spanish and English.

PERIODICALS

A. Cuban magazines

Items 2 and 3 supra might well have been considered here. Among the other reviews and quarterlies those named below are undoubtedly the most serious and worthwhile for the purposes of the student of Cuban history. All of them are of exceptionally high calibre. Cf. supra, p. 635. 17. Cuba contemporánea. Issued monthly at Havana since 1913.

Under the able editorship of Carlos de Velasco (cf. infra, p. 673) and, more recently, Mario Guiral Moreno, this has won a name for itself as one of the leading magazines in all Hispanic America. While covering a wide range in subject-matter, it has a number of articles that are very important as materials for Cuban history.

18. Cuba y América. A weekly magazine, published since 1897, at first for two years in New York, and afterward in Havana, to 1917, when it ceased publication.

Broad in subject-matter, like the preceding. Long edited by Raimundo Cabrera. Cf. supra, pp. 634-635, and infra, p. 667.

19. Reforma social. A monthly review, published in New York from 1914 to 1921, and since then in Havana.

A publication of the influential Orestes Ferrara, devoted to "social, economic, political, parliamentary, statistical, and sanitation questions."

20. Revista bimestre cubana. Founded originally in 1831 as the organ of the Sociedad Económica de los Amigos

del País (Economic Society of the Friends of the Country), established in 1793, it lived three years, being edited by the famous José Antonio Saco. Revived in 1911, and published bi-monthly ever since, under the editorship of the distinguished Cuban scholar, Fernando Ortiz.

This important review is one of the leading sources of information about Cuban affairs, especially those having a broad social and economic scope.

B. United States and other foreign magazines

Naturally, the material about Cuba appears only incidentally in the magazines of other countries, but there is an especially great number of articles in periodicals published in the United States. A survey of the well-known indices of American periodical literature, Poole's index, and the Readers' guide for the years from May 20, 1902, to 1925 revealed approximately two thousand articles about Cuba, to which must be added those in periodicals not listed in the above-named volumes and others in newspapers. By far the most important magazine for the historical scholar is the Hispanic American historical review, now published by Duke University. Under the able editorship of Doctor James Alexander Robertson, this periodical is the one indispensable tool of the Hispanic American field, and is as useful for Cuba as for the other republics south of the United States. Occasional articles also appear in other serious periodicals. The material in popular magazines is rarely of a high quality, consisting mainly of digests from the New York newspapers or else of uninformed or partisan surveys. Now and then one gets useful data from them, however, and they are always helpful as an indication of the trend of American opinion. The best current sources of information among them are the American review of reviews and Current history, which give brief summaries of Cuban events, while some of the other magazines, notably World's work, occasionally publish longer articles of much interest and value. In the periodicals of other countries the articles about Cuba are fewer in number and usually of less importance.

C. Newspapers

The newspapers unquestionably are one of the most important forms of contemporary material for events in Cuba and opinions about them. The Cuban papers have already

been discussed in detail supra, pp. 596-603. Except for an occasional formal article, the newspapers of the United States and other foreign countries are, of course, much less important, although they do reflect the outsider's attitude with respect to Cuban affairs.

D. Some noteworthy articles

The articles named below are only a few of those cited in this volume. Another list equally long and possibly equally important (including a number of articles that the writer saw but did not have occasion to use) might easily be drawn up. Of those referred to here, however, the following would appear to be outstandingly worth while:

21. Aguayo, Alfredo Miguel. Factores cualitativos de nuestra decadencia escolar, in Revista bimestre cubana, v. XIX, pp. 81-95; Mar.-Apr., 1924.

22. Brooks, Sydney. Cuba, in Fortnightly review, v. XCIV, pp. 796-806; Nov., 1910.

For a number of other articles on Cuba by the same author, see supra, p. 319, n. 1, and p. 642, n. 4.

23. Carrión, Miguel de. El desenvolvimiento social de Cuba en los últimos veinte años, in Cuba contemporánea, v. XXVII, pp. 6-27; Sept., 1921.

24. Conn, Edward L

The crisis in Cuba, in (Philadelphia Public ledger, republished in) Berkeley (California) Gazette, Nov. 19-24, 26-29, 1923.

A series of ten articles, with the title for the last five changing to Cuba not free but enslaved.

25. Crowder, Enoch Herbert. El memorandum no. 13, tr. Sp. in Heraldo de Cuba, Aug. 5, 1922.

26. Cuba, an American ward again?, in Independent, v. CXIII, pp. 35-38; July 19, 1924.

27. Fox, Albert Whiting. [Articles on the state of affairs in Cuba at the time of the Veterans and Patriots' || movement], in (Washington Post, Sept. 10-14, 1923, tr. Sp. in) Heraldo de Cuba, Sept. 11-14, 19, 1923.

28. Guiral Moreno, Mario. Nuestros problemas políticos, económicos y sociales, in Cuba contemporánea, v. V, pp. 401-424; Aug., 1914.