_The above works are for sale by all booksellers, or will be mailed by the publishers, postage prepaid, on receipt of the price._ FOOTNOTES: [A] Since this was written, Professor S. H. Woodbridge, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been successful in having a bill passed which hinders the lottery still further by closing to it apparently every avenue of advertisement and correspondence. The lottery people in consequence are at present negotiating with the government of Venezuela, and have offered it fifty thousand dollars a year and a share of the earnings for its protection. [B] Guiteris died a few months after our visit. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Emboldened text is surrounded by equals signs: =bold=. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. Archaic or variant spelling has been retained.