Laws of the Indies for the good treatment and preservation of the
Indians, promulgated by the Emperor Charles the Fifth, 1542-1543. A
facsimile reprint of the original Spanish edition, together with a
literal translation into the English language, to which is prefixed an
historical introduction._ Of the long introduction _of_ ninety-four
pages, the first thirty-eight are from the pen of Mr. Henry Stevens, the
remainder from that of Mr. Fred. W. Lucas, whose diligent researches
into American history are amply exemplified in his former work,
_Appendiculae Historicae, or shreds of history hung on a horn,_ and in
his recent work, _The Annals of the Voyages of the Brothers Zeno._

Ever since 1886 I have from time to time unsuccessfully endeavoured to
enlist the services of various editors competent to complete the
projected eleven volumes of the Hercules Club publications, but after a
lapse of nearly fourteen years I have awakened to the fact that no
actual progress has been made, and that I have secured nothing beyond
the vague promise of future assistance. The field of editors capable of
this class of work being necessarily very limited, and death having
recently robbed me in the most promising case of even the slender hope
of future help, I determined to ascertain for myself the exact position
of the work already done, with the hope of bringing at least some of the
volumes to a completion separately, instead of waiting longer in the
hope of finishing and issuing them all _en bloc_ as originally proposed
and intended. On collating the printed stock I found that the two
volumes, _Hariot's Virginia_ and the _Life of Hariot,_ were practically
complete, the text of both all printed off, and the titles and
preliminary leaves and the Index to _Hariot's Virginia_ actually
standing in type at the Chiswick Press just as my father left them
fourteen years ago! (Many thanks to Messrs Charles Whittingham and Co.
for their patience.) The proofs of these I have corrected and passed for