All these works relate more or less entirely to Mayan mythology, and are chiefly valuable as illustrating the connection between the Kiché and Mayan mythologies. It must be understood that this is not a list of works relating to Mayan antiquities, but only a list of such works as refer at the tame time to Mayan and Kiché mythology. The brief essay of the late Professor Max Müller upon the "Popol Vuh" is of little or no value except as a statement in favour of its authenticity. It gives little or no information concerning the work, and is, indeed, chiefly concerned with the authenticity and nature of North American picture-drawings. II The principal works of the older Spanish authors, which in any way relate to the myths of Maya-Kiché peoples, are: Las Casas--"Historia de los Indias" (1552). Cogolludo--"Historia de Yucathan" (1688). Diego de Landa--"Relacion de los Cosas de Yucatan" (translated into French, and edited by Brasseur). Ximenes--"Escolias à los Historias del origèn de los Indios" (Circa, 1725). Palacios--"Description de la Provincia de Guatemala" (in the collection of Ternaux-Compans). Juarros--"Historia de Guatimala." NOTES NOTE 1. (PAGE 8) Much that is absurd has been written concerning the antiquity of the ruined cities of Central America, and some authors have not hesitated to place their foundation in an antiquity beside which the pre-dynastic buildings of Egypt would appear quite recent. But that they were abandoned not long before the Columbian era is now generally admitted. See Winsor's "Narrative and Critical History of America," chap, iii., and the works of Charnay, Maler, Maudslay, and Gordon, for modern opinion upon the subject; also the various monographs contained in the more recent volumes of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology's annual report. That a very respectable antiquity belongs to several sites is, however, certain; and competent authorities have not hesitated to ascribe to some of the ruins an age of not less than two thousand years. NOTE 2. (PAGE 8)