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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
for the French and French-Swiss, the next most numerous group.
The twelve Scandinavians (five Danish, one Icelandic, five Swed-
ish, and one Swedish-Finnish) are almost as numerous as the
French. There were eleven Spanish-speaking writers (four Mex-
ican, three Spanish, two Argentineans, one Colombian, and one
Honduran) and four Brazilians. Five Italians, one Dutchman, one
Czech, and one Pole round out the group.
FOREIGN BOOKS ON TEXAS, 1900-1950
Aabye, Karen. Dejligt at Amerika ikke ligger langt herfra. Copen-
hagen, Steen Hasselbalchs Forlage, 1949. 138 pp.
Date of observation: Shortly before publication.
Houston, El Paso, and the Texas countryside (47-66) impress this
Danish girl just as a Texan would want them to impress her; size,
color, history, and progress are the keynotes of her account of Texas.
Andrdsen, Georg. Det forblpffende Amerika. Aarhus, Forlaget
Aros, 1949. 20o8 pp.
Date of observation: Shortly before publication.
On pp. 7-14 Andresen describes a trip through Texas (Laredo, San
Antonio-above all the Alamo, "an American Thermopylae"-and
Dallas) in glowing terms, although he was disappointed to find evi-
dence of the race problem.
Arciniegas, German. En el pais del rascacielos y las zanahorias.
Bogota, Libreria Suramerica, 1945. 2 vols.
Date of observation: Study based on trips taken in 1929, 1939, and
1943.
In one of the three brief but penetrating essays dealing with the
South that are scattered through the two volumes, Arciniegas gives
impressions from a stay "En el coraz6n de Texas" (I, 119-121) with a
few brief notes on Austin.
Aubert, Georges. Les nouvelles Amdriques; notes sociales et
dconomiques; Atats-Unis, Mexique, Cuba, Colombia, Guate-
mala, etc. Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 19go (?). 438 pp.
Date of observation: 19o1.
On pp. 71-76 Aubert describes his trip from St. Louis to Mexico,
during which he passed through San Antonio ("a little town of 40,000
inhabitants" with many points of historic interest) and Laredo with
its potpourri of the Mexican and the North American. He is super-
ficial but not unjust in his descriptions.
Bahr, Mex. Reise-Berichte iiber Amerika. Landsberg a.W., Fr.
Schiffer, 190o6. 252 PP.20o4
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