(London, 1807), are authoritative, even if not always easy to read.
On the wars of independence, see the scholarly treatise by W.S.
Robertson, "Rise of the Spanish-American Republics as Told in the Lives of their Liberators" (New York, 1918); Bartolome Mitre, "The Emancipation of South America" (London, 1893)--a condensed translation of the author's "Historia de San Martin", and wholly favorable to that patriot; and F.L.Petre, "Simon Bolivar" (London, 1910)--impartial at the expense of the imagination.

Among the numerous contemporary accounts, the following will be found serviceable: W.D.Robinson, "Memoirs of the Mexican Revolution" (Philadelphia, 1890); J.R.
Poinsett, "Notes on Mexico" (London, 1825); H.M.Brackenridge, "Voyage to South America," 2 vols.

(London, 1820); W.B.Stevenson, "Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years' Residence in South America", 3 vols.

(London, 1895); J.Miller, "Memoirs of General Miller in the Service of the Republic of Peru", 2 vols.

(London, 1828); H.L.