White Conquest

Abstract

MR. DIXON has been again in America, this time to collect evidences of the struggle between the races that is being waged on that wide battle-field. Although his method of treating the subject is not such as, quite to bring his work within the critical sphere of NATURE, and although the author makes no attempt to treat his subject scientifically, still even the scientific reader, the student of ethnology or of the characteristics of the various races of men, and he who takes an interest in the struggle for existence wherever it is being carried on, will find much in Mr. Dixon's striking pictures well fitted both to interest and instruct. It is not in our province to criticise the quality of the artistic element in the work, but about its fascination there can be no doubt. Of course the work is one-sided. We do not use the term by way of depreciation, but in its literal sense. Mr. Dixon's aim is to represent, by means of a series of sharply outlined and brilliant pictures, the most prominent and often the most unpleasant features of the great struggle out of which it is evident the white race must come victorious.

White Conquest.

By William Hepworth Dixon. Two vols. (London: Chatto and Windus, 1876.)