The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 14, July 1910 - April, 1911 Page: 339
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Book Reviews and Notices
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strengthen the conventional view that Houston was merely coquet-
ting with England to stimulate the jealousy of the United States.
Of positive errors discoverable by this reviewer there are not
many. But Santa Anna was not president of Mexico "in 1832
and again in 1835" (p. 65, note). He was elected in 1833 for a
term of four years, ending March, 1837. On page 93 we are told
of the "signing" of the Texan treaties in 1842, though what is
meant is that ratifications were then exchanged. There seems to
be some uncertainty concerning the origin of the so-called "Rob-
inson armistice": on page 128 it is correctly said to have been
suggested by J. W. Robinson, a Texan prisoner in Mexico, but on
page 133 the statement is that "The plan had originated with
Santa Anna." On the same page (133) the date of Elliot's receipt
of Aberdeen's despatch should presumably read "Early in July"
instead of June, since it was dated in London on June 3 (see p.
130, note 8). Anson Jones can hardly be said to have been a
"prominent revolutionary leader" (p. 196). And the name of the
French charg6 to Texas was not "Savigny" (pp. 208, 209, 210,
215), but Saligny. One encounters here and there an apparent
tendency to accept at face value the motives of diplomats as avowed
by themselves, and on page 147 there are signs of a curious faith
that if they do not always tell the truth they ought to. The com-
pact style of the book, devoid of the explanatory matter which no
doubt accompanied the lectures, makes it difficult reading, and
sometimes leads the writer to the statement of important conclu-
sions without revealing the process by which he reached them; for
example, one doubts the assertion on page 159 that "Aberdeen was
ready [in January, 1844] to go the length of a direct prohibition
of annexation in case he found France acquiescent," until the evi-
dence for this is later supplied (pp. 168-169) in Murphy's mem-
orandum to Aberdeen of May 31. There is a final chapter of
thirty pages, reprinted from The American Historical Review, on
British interest in the annexation of California.
EUGENE C. BARKER.
The Austin College Bulletin, October, 1910, Volume II, Num-
ber 13, contains an article on the "Life and Work of Stephen F.
Austin," by L. A. Wright, holder of the Stephen F. Austin Fellow-
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