Excerpt from The Real Argentine: Notes and Impressions of a Year in the Argentine and Uruguay So many books have been written on South Ameri can countries within recent years that the addition of one more to the already formidable list calls for a word of explanation, if not apology. SO far as American writers on the latin-american Republics are concerned, many of their works are based upon the statistical returns of the respective Govern ments, or on topographical and historical data, easily obtainable at the public libraries. Others, more pop ular, but perhaps less valuable, are the hasty records of fleeting visits. These latter are so apt to be in formed by a spirit of indiscriminate admiration that they present misleading and untrue notions of the coun tries described. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.