"Achieves a totality of effect that reminds one of Poe."--_Wichita Falls Times_ "If you like to feel the exotic made factual, here it is."--_Saskatchewan Star-Phoenix_ "A lively and richly picturesque chronicle of a Mexico that was."--_Chicago Sun-Times_ "A book of substance and depth--beautifully, poetically written.--_Moberly Monitor-Index_ "A skillfully written novel, interwoven with color and excitement."--_New Bedford Standard Times_ "A suspenseful story."--_The Diplomat_ "A story of change, love, violence, and corruption that moves fast."--_Sacramento Bee_ "A penetrating novel, with wonderful scenes and rich understanding."--_Long Beach Press Telegram_ "Filled with impressive details of landscape and Mexican life, all presented with an artist's eye."--_Richmond News Leader_ PUBLISHED BOOKS BY PAUL ALEXANDER BARTLETT [Illustration: The author sketching an hacienda] NOVELS _VOICES FROM THE PAST--A Quintet of Novels_, consisting of * _Sappho's Journal_ * _Christ's Journal_ * _Leonardo da Vinci's Journal_ * _Shakespeare's Journal_ * _Lincoln's Journal_ _When the Owl Cries_ _Adiós Mi México_ _Forward, Children!_ POETRY _Wherehill_ _Spokes for Memory_ NONFICTION _The Haciendas of Mexico: An Artist's Record_ THE AUTHOR Paul Alexander Bartlett was a writer and artist, born in Moberly, Missouri, and educated at Oberlin College, the University of Arizona, the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City, and the Instituto de Bellas Artes in Guadalajara. His work can be divided into three categories: He is the author of many novels, short stories, and poems; second, as a fine artist, his drawings, illustrations, and paintings have been exhibited in more than 40 one-man shows in leading galleries, including the Los Angeles County Museum, the Atlanta Art Museum, the Bancroft Library, the Richmond Art Institute, the Brooks Museum, the Instituto-Mexicano-Norteamericano in Mexico City, and many other galleries; and, third, he devoted much of his life to the most comprehensive study of the haciendas of Mexico that has been undertaken. 350 of his pen-and-ink illustrations of the haciendas and more than 1,000 hacienda photographs make up the Paul Alexander Bartlett Collection held by the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and form part of a second diversified collection held by the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, which also includes an archive of Bartlett's literary work, fine art, and letters. A third archive consisting primarily of Bartlett's literary work is held by the Department of Special Collections at UCLA.