New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-07

low with easy understanding NJ. Denls's
cbanters on the economic life of Brazil.
(which. unlike the United States. is as
vet not one national market, but owing
10 the lack Of means Of communication
q host Of isolated little ones. He will
no doubt easily understand the author
remarks on the difficulties Of exchange
and on that great experiment, valoriza-
ton. OF this policy NJ. Denis says:
II Brazil's production of coffee continues l
80 increase, valoriZauon VIII only haxe
been blow struck in the void Ohe
danger remains; ii lies in the fact that
they have not foreseen or aHoWeu LOT -,
radical reform of the present ORGANIZATION
Of the coffee-grOwing industry. IhelT III
quiries bear exclusively upon the present
conditions Of production by large estates .st
il small ownership should establish ltsell
one dav in san PaOlo, would II not pc
able 10 diminish the expense or producing
coffee?
Another subject on which the author
Is exceptionally instructive is that of
immigration. the problem being already
ruriously complicated in Brazil by
emigration Of the Italian immigrant 10
the Argentine. NJ. Denis dismisses an
.JtaliaD danger TO Brazil as prepos
ferrous. and gives even less Importance
20 the so-called German danger there,
with which we here have been made so
familiar Of late years. That powerful
assimilator Of immigration everywhere
education. receives its proper share Of
attention The author is markedly pes
eimistic on the subject Of the future Of
iBraziIs negro population.
He deals with Brazil as the Oldest OF
fhe South American countries. the
lone that bears the closest resemblance
Allel so often drawn by Brazilians
between their own country and the
United States. but proves It's inexact-
ness except In the matter Of Portu-
kuese- Brazilian artstocracy resembling
that Of the OLD Dominion and still pos
eessing most Of the land. There is moth
Sng In the story Of Brazils development
20 equal the irresistible progress west
ward Of the United States. But for the
Rreponderating Importance Of agricult-
Nral life in the republic, NJ. Denis
holds. tho present-day Portuguese i'm
scf time make a profound impression
ION the country's future. Many Of the
ypoints referred to here in q general way
thave only local application in a coun-
TRY of such enormous extent The reader
is referred TO the book itself. which Will
leminently we'll repay him in sound in
hormation Interestingly conveyed for the
Hime bestowed upon It. Mr.. Malls hts
Iforical chapter is q happy thought, and
Iso is Mr.. Vindin's closing one on the
scountry's mineral resources and present
ifrade and commerce, with look into
1.-The future.
Early IN his capital account Of an ex-
.ceptionally interesting trip. Professor
bingham warns his readers not to call
,the Brazilians "Spanish-Anericans" in
their presence. but TO use the word
iIatin-Americans instead. for
81 there is one thing more than another
that the Brazilian is proud OF IL is that
he is not Spaniard and does not speak
Spanish However, the difference between
ihe two languages Is not SO great and the
local pride not 80 strong but that the oblig-
ting natives will understand you even IL
you have the bad taste TO address them in
Spanish. They will reply, however. In Por-
ituguese, and then IL is your turn to be
obliging and understand them If you can.
Professor Bingham was a delegate Of
the United States government and Of
yale University TO the first Pan-Ameri-
ican Scientific Congress. held at Santiago,
Chill. in December. 19OS-January. 1909
ION his way thither he visited the chief
brazilian coast towns traversed the Ar
lgentine from Montevideo northward, Wis
sted Potosi and Sucre, in Bolivia. and on
his return travelled up the coast Of
Chilli TO re-enter Bolivia again and con-
linue his Journey northward into Peru
20 Tiahanuaco and Cuzco. and thence
by mules along the old Inca road to
Lima. on the way he turned aside TO
visit the ruins Of an Inca fortress The
chief interest Of his trip. as ne points