At the outset the prospective student is warned that as yet there exists no single text-book devoted to the Hispanic-American republics which satisfactorily and adequately presents their history, describes their present conditions and discusses their institutions. This absence, of necessity, determines that the course will be based largely upon material to be found only in a number of books, public documents, and scientific reports. An effort has been made in this syllabus to meet this difficult situation. Lectures following the outline of the syllabus and explanatory of it, and recitations based on assigned readings, will constitute the class work. On these lectures and readings the students will be expected to take notes. In addition, they will be required to make certain class reports and at least once during the year to prepare, after consultation with the instructor, an essay on some topic of the syllabus or allied phase of the work. Students will be required to provide themselves individually with a copy of this syllabus and with W. R. Shepherd's _Latin America_ (Holt & Company). It is strongly recommended that they purchase also F. Garcia Calderon's _Latin America: Its Rise and Progress_ (Scribners). For the general student and reader the following list of books, written in English, may be found useful: For description, geography, travel, peoples and social conditions: James Bryce, _South America: Observations and Impressions_. (Macmillan). G. E. Church, _Aborigines of South America_. (Chapman and Hall.) C. R. Enock, _The Republics of Central and South America_. (Dent & Sons). A. H. Keane, _Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel: Central and South America_. (2 Vols., Lippincott.) _Atlas America Latina_, (English, Spanish, Portuguese; General Drafting Co.). R. Reyes, _The Two Americas_. (Stokes.) A. Ruhl, _The Other Americans_. (Scribners.) H. Bingham, _Across South America_. (Houghton Mifflin Co.) For history: T. C. Dawson, _The South American Republics_. (3 Vols., Putnam.) A. H. Noll, _A Short History of Mexico_. (McClurg.) F. Palmer, _Central America and its Problems_. (Moffat, Yard & Co.) For institutions and history: E. G. Bourne, _Spain in America_. (American Nation Series, Harpers.) B. Moses, _The Establishment of Spanish Rule in America_. (Putnam.) ----, _South America on the Eve of Emancipation_. (Putnam.) ----, _Spanish Dependencies in South America_. (Harpers.) F. L. Paxson, _The Independence of the South American Republics_. (2nd Ed., Ferris and Leach.) W. S. Robertson, _The Rise of the Spanish American Republics_. (Appleton.) W. R. Shepherd, _Hispanic Nations of the New World; A Chronicle of Our Southern Neighbors_. (Yale Press.) For literature: Alfred Coester, _The Literary History of Spanish America_. (Macmillan.)