PAN AMERICAN NOTES. 781 THE "PAN AMERICAN ROUND TABLE" OF SAN ANTONIO, TEX. The BULLETIN is in receipt of an account of the organization of a club composed of many of the most progressive and intellectual women of San Antonio who purpose to make a study of the Latin American Republics, and to lend their energies and influence toward the promotion of a better understanding and more intimate relations between the women of the United States and those of the other American countries. The club, known as The Pan American Round Table, was inaugurated at an elaborate luncheon, during the course of which many congratulatory messages and expressions of cordial cooperation from distinguished statesmen and diplomats were received and read. Among others, telegrams and letters were received from Hon. Robert Lansing, Secretary of State of the United States; Sr. Alberto de Ipanema Moreira, counselor of the Brazilian Embassy; Sr. Don Ignacio Calderon, minister from Bolivia; and Sr. Don Joaquin Mendez, minister from Guatemala. TOURIST CLUB OF MINNEAPOLIS STUDYING LATIN AMERICA. Among the many prominent women's clubs in the United States now studying Latin America is the Tourist Club, of Minneapolis, Minn. The BULLETIN is in receipt of the club's very interesting program for 1916-17, and desires to extend congratulations upon the scope and character of the course of study outlined. One of the most interesting and profitable meetings of the club took place early in December when Mr. Henry E. Ewing, for several years secretary of the University Young Men's Christian Association in Buenes Aires, addressed the club on the subject of "University and student life in Argentina," a theme which his personal familiarity with student activities in that Republic enabled him to handle in a most pleasing and instructive manner. THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ISSUES BULLETIN ON COMMERCIAL EDUCATION. The Pan American Union is in receipt of Bulletin, 1916, No. 25, published by the Bureau of Education, United States Department of the Interior. Its character and scope are briefly outlined in the following letter of transmittal by Dr. P. P. Claxton, commissioner of education, to the Secretary of the Interior: SIR: The program of the subsection on commercial education of the educational section of the Pan American Scientific Congress, held in Washington City December 27, 1915, to January 8, 1916, was so comprehensive and the papers of such value that I requested Dr. Glen Levin Swiggett, assistant secretary general of the congress and chairman of the committee on commercial education, to prepare these papers for publication as a bulletin of the Bureau of Education. This he has done in such a way as to preserve the best of the substance of these papers with as little repetition AN ELEVATED ANDEAN RAILWAY STATION. Immediately to the right and just beyond the station may be seen the entrance Caracoles is a station of the Trans-Andean Railway, about 10,365 feet above the level of the sea. to the celebrated trans-Andean tunnel, which is a little less than 2 miles long, part of it being in Argentina and part in Chile. as possible. Because of the increasing general interest in commercial education in all parts of the country, and especially in the centers of urban population, I recommend that the manuscript transmitted herewith be published as a bulletin of this bureau. BOOK NOTES Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. Being the random notes of an incurable vagabond. By Harry A. Franck . . . New York, The Century Co., 1916. 378 p. 8°. illus. Price, $2. Polyglot Rubber Trade Directory of the United States and Canada. 1916. New York, The India Rubber World, 1916. 421 p. 8°. Price, $3.50. Mexico To-Day: Social, political, and religious conditions. By George B. Winton. New York, Missionary education movement of the United States and Canada, 1913. x, 235 p. illus. maps. 12°. Price, 50 cents. The Land of the Golden Man. By Anita B. Ferris. New York, Missionary education movement of the United States and Canada, 1916. x, 125 p. illus. map. 12°. Price, 50 cents. Early Diplomatic Relations between the United States and Mexico. By William R. Manning. (The Albert Shaw lectures on diplomatic history, 1913.) Baltimore, the Johns Hopkins Press, 1916. xi, 406 p. 8°. Price, $2.25. South American Pilot Published by the United States Hydrographic Office under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy. First edition. Washington, 1916. 3 vols. 8°. Price, 90 cents each. Vol. 1. East coast, from the Orinoco River to the Plata River. Vol. 2. Southern part, from the Plata River on the east coast to Corcovado Gulf on the west coast, and including Magellan Strait, the Falkland Islands, and islands to the southeast, and Antarctic South America. Vol. 3. West coast from Corcovado Gulf to Panama, including off-lying islands. The Collection of Osteological Material from Machu Picchu. By George F. Eaton, curator of osteology in the Peabody Museum, Yale University (Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 5.) New Haven, Conn., 1916. 96 p. illus. 39 plates. tables. fold. map. 4°. Price, $5. The American Fertilizer Hand Book. The standard reference book and directory of the commercial fertilizer industry and allied trades. The buyer's guide of the trade; where to obtain plant equipment, raw materials, and expert service required in the fertilizer industry Philadelphia, Ware Bros. Co., 1916. [398] p. 4°. Price, $1. Proceedings of Fifth National Conference. American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes. December 29-30, 1915. Washington, D. C. Edited by James Brown Scott. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Co., 1916. x, 137 p. 8°. Gratis. Report on Trade and Tariffs in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru [by the United States] Federal Trade Commission. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1916. 246 p. 8°. Price, 30 cents. Markets for Machinery and Machine Tools in Peru, Bolivia, and Chile, by J. A. Massel. (Special Agents Series, No. 118, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce.) Washington, Government Printing Office, 1916. 88 p. 8°. Price, 10 cents. Lumber Markets of the West and North Coasts of South America. By Roger E. Simmons. (Specia! Agents Series, No. 117, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce.) Washington, Government Printing Office, 1916. 149 p. 8°. Price, 25 cents. A Commentary on the Declaration of the Rights of Nations adopted by the American Institute of International Law. By Francisco José Urrutia, former minister of foreign affairs in Colombia. New York, "Las Novedades" [printer], 1916. 98 p. 8°. Hacia el Iguazú. Cataratas y ruinas. Descripciones y apuntes. Por Emilio B. Morales. Buenos Aires, Talleres Jacobo Peuser, 1914. 116 p. illus. 12°. [A guide book, giving full details of a trip to, and description of, the Iguazú Falls.] |