Texas Folklore Society. Its publications are a storehouse of Mexican folklore in the Southwest and in Mexico also. Especially recommended are _Texas and Southwestern Lore_ (VI), _Man, Bird, and Beast_ (VIII), _Southwestern Lore_ (IX), _Spur-of-the-Cock_ (XI), _Puro Mexicano_ (XII), _Texian Stomping Grounds_ (XVII), _Mexican Border Ballads and Other Lore_ (XXI), _The Healer of Los Olmos and Other Mexican Lore_ (XXIV, 1951). All published by Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas. TOOR, FRANCES. A _Treasury of Mexican Folkways_, Crown, New York, 1947. An anthology of life. TURNER, TIMOTHY G._ Bullets, Bottles and Gardenias_, Dallas, 1935. Obscurely published but one of the best books on Mexican life. OP. 7. Flavor of France THERE IS little justification for including Louisiana as a part of the Southwest. Despite the fact that the French flag--tied to a pole in Louisiana--once waved over Texas, French influence on it and other parts of the Southwest has been minor. ARTHUR, STANLEY CLISBY. _Jean Laffite, Gentleman Rover_ (1952) and _Audubon: An Intimate Life of the American Woodsman_ (1937), both published by Harmanson--Publisher and Bookseller, 333 Royal St., New Orleans. CABLE, GEORGE W. _Old Creole Days: Strange True Stories of Louisiana_. CHOPIN, KATE. _Bayou Folk_. FORTIER, ALCEE. Any of his work on Louisiana. HEARN, LAFCADIO. _Chita_. A lovely story. JOUTEL. _Journal_ of La Salle's career in Texas. KANE, HARNETT T. _Plantation Parade: The Grand Manner in Louisiana_ (1945), _Natchez on the Mississippi_ (1947), _Queen New Orleans_ (1949), all published by Morrow, New York. KING, GRACE. _New Orleans: The Place and the People; Balcony Stories._ MCVOY, LIZZIE CARTER. _Louisiana in the Short Story_, Louisiana State University Press, 1940. SAXON, LYLE. _Fabulous New Orleans; Old Louisiana; Lafitte the Pirate_. 8. Backwoods Life and Humor THE SETTLERS who put their stamp on Texas were predominantly from the southern states--and far more of them came to Texas to work out of debt than came with riches in the form of slaves. The plantation owner came too, but the go-ahead Crockett kind of backwoodsman was typical. The southern type never became so prominent in New Mexico, Arizona, and California as in Texas. Nevertheless, the fact glares out that the code of conduct--the riding and shooting tradition, the eagerness to stand up and fight for one's rights, the readiness to back one's judgment with a gun, a bowie knife, money, life itself--that characterized the whole West as well as the Southwest was southern, hardly at all New England.