Note 63 — PART I. AMERICANA IN LIBRARIES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES.
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They appeared in The Nation and in the New York Independent early in 1883. The first aimed to show that there were substantial grounds for dissent from Mr. Bancroft’s views regarding the Aztec civilization. The second ignored that point in controversy, and merely proposed, as was stated, to test the “bibliographic value” which Mr. Bancroft had claimed for his book, and to point out the failures of the index plan and the vicarious system as employed by him.