DOMINGO JUARREZ. "Compendio de la Historia de Guatemala." 1808-1818, Guatemala. (Relies too much on Fuentes.) English translation by Bailey. London, 1823. "A statistical and Commercial History of the Kingdom of Guatemala, in Spanish America."--A second Spanish edition appeared in 1857. FRANCISCO DE PAULA GARCIA PELAEZ. (See Chiapas.). "Memorias para la Historia del Antiguo Reyno de Guatemala." 1852. CHARLES ETIENNE BRASSEUR DE BOURBOURG. "Popol Vuh. Le livre Sacré et les Mythes de l'Antiquité Américaine, avec les livres Héroiques et Historiques des Quichés." Paris, 1861. Hardly any work of this century has created such a "mixed" sensation of a serious nature, as this book.--It could be seen at a glance, that no mystification was possible,--but there was a wide field open for discussion on the point of origin, as far as the document itself, the "Popol Vuh," was concerned.--Still the "sensation" has not resulted in much active critical examination, and I think (If I may be permitted to commit such a breach of modesty,) myself the only person attempting a criticism of the "Popol Vuh" on the basis of documentary evidence. Unfortunately, I was unable to prepare my annotations in time for the publication of the 27th Volume of Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in 1878.--Thus only the text of "Sources for aboriginal history of Spanish America," appeared without any documentary evidence attached. One thing is evident, that the "Popol Vuh" was _written_. Now it is a fact very easily proven, that the aborigines of Guatemala had no phonetic alphabet whatever, consequently _that they did not write_.--Therefore the "Popol Vuh" must have been composed, as an instrument in writing, since the conquest; or after 1524.--This is developed utterly independent of the fact that the document hints at two data (p. 343,) indicating the time of its composition to have been after 1550, and prior to 1600.--Therefore it was written in our letters, or perhaps with the aid of the "five characters" invented by Fray Francisco de la Parra, previous to 1560, to indicate sounds for which our alphabet had no signs.--At all events, it was written in the native Quiché idiom, and was only met with incidentally by Fray Francisco Ximenez at the town of Chichicastenango, towards the close of the 17th century.--This Dominican monk translated it into the Spanish language and incorporated both text and translation in the first volume of his "Historia de la provincia de predicadores, &c."--according to Brasseur de Bourbourg's really silly and irritatingly confused bibliography--(p. XIII., "Notice Bibliographique.") Dr. Scherzer certainly deserves credit for having published a Spanish text rendering approximatively the "Popol Vuh," in 1857, and there is no doubt but that it is as correct a rendering of the original Quiché as the French translation of Brasseur de Bourbourg.