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About Google Book Search Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http://books.google.com/ SENERAL LIBRARY ch University of Michigan Prescated by a0 Oar. are a 4 *, Z A eS Sh a Feed Taf SBE ro, 7 4 L AFT a Waw— 4S LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Z ° DIVISION OF BIBLIOGRAPHY. / Sb) V2 i sv A LIST OF BOOKS (WITII REFERENCES TO PERIODICALS) ooret ran 5 7 ON THE DANISH WEST INDIES. 2- > Saar (os . \ . ~ Pada Gg AXP. CC‘! GRIFFIN, CHIEF OF DIVISION OF BIBLIOGRAPHY. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1901, Prerecerd (-6- LOEW INTRODUCTION. The only authority in English dealing exclusively with the Danish West Indies appears to be C. E. Taylor’s ‘‘ Leaflets from the Danish West Indies: Descriptive of the social, political and commercial con- dition of these islands.” The author was for many years a resident of St. Thomas, and his work has the value of affording information acquired at first hand. The geographic manuals like Réclus’s ‘*The Earth and its inhabitants” and Stanford’s ‘‘ Compendium of geography and travel” give good summary accounts of the history and natural features of the islands. The negotiations for the purchase of the islands in 1865-1869 are well set forth in James Parton’s ‘‘The Danish islands: Are we bound in honor to pay for them?” and in briefer form in Curtis’s ‘‘The United States and Foreign Powers” and Wharton’s “A Digest of the international law of the United States.” The proceedings of the Danish parliament are printed in the ‘‘ Rigsdagtidende.” A pamphlet by Dixon, ‘‘The St. Thomas treaty. A series of letters to the Boston ‘Daily Advertiser,” reports the proceedings in Washington while the treaty was pending, and also contains the text of the treaty. The Danish calonial fiscal system in the West Indies is the subject of an essay by C. W. Tooke, printed in ‘‘ Essays in colonial finance by the members of the American Economic Association.” The tabulated statistics of the commerce and commercial regulations of the islands may be found in the publications of the Bureau of Sta- tistics of the Treasury Department and the Foreign Commerce Bureau of the State Department. The publications of the Statens statistiske Bureau of Denmark include statistical tables of imports and exports, merchant marine, and navigation. The various reports from our con- suls at St. Thomas have been noted in their proper place in this list. A. P. C. Grirrin, Chief of Division of Bibliography. HERBERT Putnam, . Librarian of Congress. 3 BOOKS. Bates, H. W. Central America, the West Indies and South America. With an ethnological appendix by A. H. Keane. Map and illustrations. London: Edward Stanford, 1878. xviii, (2), 571 pp. 12°. (Stanford@s compendium of geography and travel.) Pp. 141-151, general description of the West Indies; pp. 176-178, St. Thomas, Santa Cruz. Bellin, Jacques Nicolas. Le petit atlas maritime; recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde. Paris: 1764. 6 vols. Maps. Plans. F°. Vol. I: no. 75, St. Croix; no. 77, St. Jean; no. 78, St. Thomas. Borgesen, F., and O. Paulsen. Om Vegetationen paa de Dansk Vest Indiske Oer. Kjobenhaun: E. Bojesen, 1898. 113 pp. Figures. Plates. 8°. Catteau-Calleville, J. P. G. Tableau des états danois, considérés sous le rapport du mécanisme social. Paris: Treuttel et Wirtz, 1802. 3 vols. 8°. Curtis, William Eleroy. The United States and foreign powers. New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1899. vi, 9-314 pp. 12°. Pp. 126-131, The annexation of St. Thomas. Day, Susan De Forest. The cruise of the Scythian in the West Indies. Fully illustrated. F. Tennyson Neely, publisher: London. New York. Chi- cago. [1899.] (2), 297 pp. Plates (photogravures). 8°. Pp. 28-51, St. Thomas; pp. 52-72, Santa Cruz. Delitsch, Otto. Westindien und die Siidpolar-Lander. Leipzig: J. 0. Hinrichs, 1871. wiv, 1201-2164 pp. 8°. (Stein C. G. D., und Ferd. Horschelmann. Handbuch der Geographie und Statistik. Siebente Auflage. Bd. 1, Abdth, 4.) Dinische Besitzungen, pp. 2106-2115. 6 LIST OF BOOKS ON THE DANISH WEST INDIES. Dewitz, A. von. In Déinisch-Westindien. Hundert und finfzig Jahre der Briidermission in St. Thomas, St. Croix und St.Jan . . . Mieshy: (H. Ender), 1882. viii, 374 pp. Plates. 12°. In Danisch-Westindien. Anfinge der Bridermission in St. Thomas, St. Croix und St. Jan von 1732-1760. Herrnhut: Missionsbuchhandlung, 1899. 322 pp. 8°. ‘“‘Kine sehr griindliche und gediegene Festschrift zum 150 jahrigen Jubilium der Briidermission in Westindien erscheint hier nach des Verfassers Tode in unverindertem Abdruck. Es ist zu bedauern, dass diese treffliche Arbeit noch nicht weiter gefiihrt ist. Das Buch gehort zu den wichtigsten Quellen der Geschichte Westindiens. Ein Kartenblatt mit den drei genannten Inseln im Massstab 1: 250,000, in guter Ausfiihrung, ist beigegeben.”’ [Dixon, pseud.] The St. Thomas treaty. A series of letters to the Boston Daily Advertiser. New York: 1869. 24 pp. 8°. Pp. 22-24, text of the treaty. Fischer, H. M. W. Om Dansk Vestindien. Kjobenhawn: Gyldendal, 1896. 50 pp. 8°. Granier de Cassagnac, A. Voyage aux Antilles. Paris: Dauvin et Fontaine, 1842-44. 2 vols. 8°. Vol. II, pp. 161-184, St. Thomas. Great Britain. Hydrographic office. The West India pilot. Vol. I. The Caribbean sea, from Barbados to Cuba. ... Origi- nally compiled by E. Barnett. 4th edition. London: 1887. 8°. . Pp. 158-191, St. John, St. Thomas, and Santa Cruz. Gurney. Joseph John. Familiar letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky, describing a winter in the West Indies. New York: Press of Mahlon Day & co., 1840. 203 pp. 8°. Pp. 11-20, Santa Cruz; pp. 21-30, Saint Thomas and Tortola. Hill, Robert T. Cuba and Porto Rico, with the other islands of the West Indies. Their topography, climate, flora, products, industries, cities, peoples, political conditions, etc. New York: The Century company, 1898. waviit, 429 pp- Plates. 8°. Pp. 25, 26, 306, 309-316, Danish West India islands. Hést, Georg. Efterretninger om den Sanct Thomas og dens Gou- verneurer, optegnede der paa Landet fra 1769 indtil 1776. Kidbenhavn: Nicolaus Moller og son, 1791. xx, 203 pp. 8°. LIST OF BOOKS ON THE DANISH WEST INDIES. , 7 Hovey, Sylvester. Letters from the West Indies: relating especially to the Danish island St. Croix, and to the British islands Antigua, Barbados, and Jamaica. New York: Gould and Newman, 1838. ww, 13-212 pp. 16°. Knox, John P. A historical account of St. Thomas, W. I., with the rise and progress in commerce; missions and churches; climate and its adaptation to invalids; geological structure; natural history and botany: and incidental notices of St. Croix and St. Johns, slave insurrections in these islands; emancipation and present condition of laboring classes. New York: Charles Scribner, 1862. 271 pp. Folded map. Plate. 12°. [Labat, Jean Pierre.] Nouveau voyage aux isles de l’Amérique. A la Haye: Chez P. Husson. [ete.] M.DCC.XXIX. 2 vols. Plates. Maps. Plans. 4°. St. Croix, Vol. I, pt.1, p. 78; pt. 2, pp. 73, 74. Vol. II, pp. 196, 197, 215. St. Thomas, Vol. II, pp. 12, 285-292. Ledru, André Pierre. Voyage aux fles de Ténériffe, la Trinité, Saint- Thomas, Sainte-Croix et Porto-Ricco, exécuté par ordre du gouvernement frangais, depuis le 30 Septembre 1796 jusquw’au 7 juin 1798, contenant des observations sur le climat, le sol, la population, agriculture, les productions de ces fles, le caractére, les mceurs et le commerce de leurs habitants. A Paris: chez A. Bertrand, 1810. 2 vols. Folded map. 8°. —— Reise nach den Inseln Teneriffa, Trinidad, St. Thomas, St. Cruz und Porto-Rico . . . aus dem Franzdsischen tiber- setzt. Mit einer Charte der Insel Porto-Rico. Weimar: Verlag des H. S. priv. Landes-Industrie- Comptoirs, 1812. «wx, 324 pp. 8°. Pp. 160-188, Danish West Indies. Le Gras, A. Mer des Antilles et Golfe du Mexique. 2° partie com- prenant les petites Antilles. . . Paris: Au Dépot de la marine, 1875. 8°. Lennep Coster, G. van. Aanterkeningen, gehouden gedurende mijn verblijf in de West-Indién, in de jaren 1837-1840. Met platen. Te Amsterdam: bij J. F. Schleijer, 1842. vii, 359 pp. 8°. 8 LIST OF BOOKS ON THE DANISH WEST INDIES Letters from the Virgin islands: illustrating life and manners in the West Indies. , London: John Van Voorst, 1843. «@, 286 pp. Chart. 12°. Morris, Henry Crittenden. The history of colonization. New York: The Macmillan company, 1900. 2 vols. 12°. Vol. II: pp. 284-286, Danish colonization in the West Indies. Oldendorp, Christian Georg Andreas. Oldendorp’s Geschichte der Mission der evangelischen Briider auf den Caraibischen Inseln S. Thomas, S. Croix und S. Jan. Hersausgegeben durch J. J. Bossart. Barby: C. F. Laux, 1777. 2 vols. Maps. Plates. 16°. — Fuldstendigt Udtog af C. G. A. Oldendorp’s Missions-Histo- rie om de evangeliske Brédres Mission paa de caraibiske Oer St. Thomas, St. Crux og St. Jan, udgivet paa Tydsk i to Dele. ' Kjébenhavn: 1784. Trykt paa Christ. L. Buchs Forlag hos J. Rud. Thiele. (8), 212 pp. 16°. ——— Historisk Beretning om de hedenske Neger-Slavers Omven: delse paa de Danske Oer i Vestindien, som et Udtog af C. G. A. Oldendorps de evangeliske Brddres Missions- Historie . . . Oversat af det Tydske. Kjobenhavn: 1784. Trykt paa C. L. Buchs Forlag hos Joh. Rud. Thiele. (2), 184, (2) pp. 16°. Bound with the preceding. Oxholm, Peter Lotharius. De Danske Vestindiske Oers Tilstand i Henseende til Population, Cultur og Finance-Forfatning, i Anledning af nogle Breve fra St. Croix. Kiobenhawn: 1797, J. F. Schultz. 8h pp. Plates. 16°. Parton, James. The Danish Islands: are we bound in honor to pay for them? Boston: Fields, Osgood & co., 1869. 76 pp. 8°. The Present state of the West-Indies: containing an accurate description of what parts are possessed by the several powers in Europe. . . . Illustrated with a complete map of the West-Indies done from the latest observations. London: Printed for R. Baldwin, MDCCLXXXVIII. (4), 95 pp. 4°. Pp. 72-74, The Virgin Islands; pp. 93-94, St. Thomas, St. John, Santa Cruz. LIST OF BOOKS ON THE DANISH WEST INDIES. 9 Raynal, Guillaume-Thomas. A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of Europeans in the East and West Indies. . . . Newly translated from the French, by J. O. Justamond. 2d edition. London: Printed for A. Strahan, [ete.]1798. G6 vols. Maps. 8. Vol. IV: pp. 256-265, Danish settlements in St. Thomas, St. John, and Santa Cruz. The Library has several editions of Raynal. Réclus, J. J. Elisée. Virgin Islands and Santa Cruz. (In Réclus, J. J. E. The earth and its inhabitants, vol. 17, pp. 430-436. London, 189—. 8°.) Pp. 430-433, St. Thomas; p. 433, St. John; pp. 433-435, Santa Cruz. Reinhardt, J., og C. F. Liitken. Bidrag til det Vestindiske Origes og navnligen til de Dansk-Vestindiske Oers Herpetologie. (In Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjébenhavn. 1862, pp. 153-291.) [Rochefort, C. de.] Histoire naturelle et morale des isles Antilles de PAmérique. . . . Avec un vocabulaire Caraibe. Se- conde édition. A Roterdam, chez Arnout Leers. M.DC.LXY. (34), 583, (13) pp. Plates. 8°. Rohr, J. P. B. von. Anmerkungen iiber den Cattunbau. Mit einer Vorrede von P. G. Hensler. Altona und Leipzig: 1791-1793. 2 parts. 8°. Part 1: Zum Nutzen der Dinischen Westindischen Colonien auf Allerhéchsten Kéniglichen Befehl geschrieben. Scherzer, Karl von. Die westindischen Inseln St. Thomas, Haiti, Porto Rico und Cuba. Mit einer Karte. (In Reise der ésterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wiillerstorf-Urbair. Statistisch-commercieller Theil von Dr. Karlvon Scherzer. Zweiter Band. pp. 467-495. Wien, 1865. 4°.) Schiitz-Holzhausen, Damian, and R. Springer. Cuba und die iibrigen Inseln Westindiens. Mit besonderer Beriicksichtigung der politischen und socialen Verhiltnisse. Mit Illustrationen und Karte. Wireburg: L. Woerl, 1896. wii, 388 pp. 12°. Seward, William H. The diplomatic history of the war for the Union, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1884. (2), viti, 626 pp. Portrait. Map. 8°. (Works, vol. 6.) Pp. 28-29, The Danish Islands. 10 LIST OF BOOKS ON THE DANISH WEST INDIES. Sloane, Sir Hans. <A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers, and Jamaica London: For the author, 1707-25. 2 vols. Plates. F°. Smith, James. The winter of 1840 in St. Croix, with an excursion to * Tortola and St. Thomas. New York: Printed for the author, 1840. 124 pp. 12°. Stenzel. Die Insel St. Thomas. [With tables and chart. ] (Jn Annalen fiir Hydrographie und maritime Meteorologie. Berlin, 1886. Vol. XIV, pp. 353-359.) “‘Seit der Aufhebung der Sklaverei und dem Ueberhandnehmen der Dampfschifffahrt hat sich der Character der Insel vdllig geindert. Die Zuckerpflanzungen sind verschwunden, der Boden ist so gut wie unbebaut, eine Vermittelung des Handels zwischen den Kisten Mittel- und des nérdlichen Siidamerikas mit den Vereinigten Staaten und Europa findet nicht mehr statt. Jetzt ist St. Thomas nur noch ein Knotenpunkt der Dampfschifffahrt nach Westindien. Die einzige Ortschaft ist Charlotte Amalie mit stationirer Bevélkerung (ca 12000). Die Gezeitenstrémungen sind so unregelmissig, dass eine richtige Hafenzeit nicht angegeben werden kann.’’ Contents: Allgemeines, Hydrographisches, Lotsendienst, Gezeiten- stromungen, Meteorologisches, Ausriistung und Reparaturen, Wasser, Kohlen, Postverbindung. Stoddard, Charles Augustus. Cruising among the Caribbees. Sum- mer days in winter months. Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner's sons, 1895. «x, (2), 198 pp. Plates (photogravures). Pp. 23-50 contain: ‘‘The Virgin Group, St. Thomas and its people, Santa Cruz.’’ Taylor, C. E. Leaflets from the Danish West Indies: descriptive of the social, political, and commercial condition of these islands. London: Dawson & sons, 1888. «xv, 228 pp. Plates (wood cuts). 8°. Thaarup, Frederik. Veiledning til det Danske Monarkies Statistik. 2den. Udg. Nidbenhaen: 1794. viti, 768, 96 pp. Engraved title. Tables. 12°. Tooke, C. W. The Danish colonial fiscal system in the West Indies. (In Essays in colonial finance by the members of the American Economic Association. August, 1900. pp. 144-167. New York: Published for the American Economic Association by the Macmil- lan company. [1900.] 303 pp. 8°.) LIST OF BOOKS ON THE DANISH WEST INDIES. 11 Trollope, Anthony. The West Indies and the Spanish Main. 2d edition. London: Chapman & Hall, 1860. iv,(2),395 pp. Map. 8°. Pp. 8, 235-241, St. Thomas. United States. Twenty-first Congress, second session. House of Rep- resentatives. Report no. 117. Concerning the commerce of the United States with the island of St. Croix. March 2, 1881. 2pp. 8°. _ Executive document no. 21. Message from the Presi- dent of the United States, transmitting copies of a corre- spondence between the Secretary of State and the minister of Denmark, in relation to the commercial intercourse between the said States and the Danish West India Islands, &e. Jan. 83,1831. 15 pp. 8°. Also printed in the British and foreign state papers, 1830-1831 [vol. 18], pp. 1164-1181. London, 1833. 8°. —— Thirty-seventh Congress, second session. House of Representa- tives. Miscellaneous document no. 80. Employment of laborers of African extraction in the island of St. Croix. Correspondence between the State Department of the United States and the chargé d’affaires of Denmark, in rela- - tion to the advantages offered by the island of St. Croix for the employment of laborers of African extraction. June 10, 1862. 12pp. 8°. West, H. Bidrag til Beskrivelse over Ste. Croix med en kort Udsigt over St. Thomas, St. Jean, Tortola, Spanishtown og Cra- beneiland. Kiébenhavn: 1793. Trykt hos Friderik Wilhelm Thiele. (8), 363, (1) pp. Folded sheets. 12°. Beytrage zur Beschreibung von St. Croix. Nebst einer kurzen Uebersicht der benachbarten Inseln, St. Thomas, St. Jean, Tortola, Spanishtown und Krabbeneyland. Aus dem Dani- schen, mit Verbesserungen und Vermehrung des Verfassers. Kopenhagen: 1794. Bey C. G. Prost, Sohn und compagnie. (1), 274 pp. 12°. Wharton, Francis. A digest of the international law of the United States, Washington: Government printing office, 1896. 3 vols. 8°. (United States. Department of State.) Vol. I, pp. 416-417, Danish West Indies. 12 LIST OF BOOKS ON THE DANISH WEST INDIES. A Winter in the West Indies and Florida; containing general observations upon modes of traveling, manners and cus- toms, climate and productions, with a particular description of St. Croix, Trinidad de Cuba, Havana, Key West, and St. Augustine, as places of resort for northern invalids. By an invalid. New York: Published by Wiley and Putnam, 1839. 199 pp. 16°. 1861. 1863. 1864. 1864. 1868. 1869. 1874. 1887. 1887. ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS. St. Thomas; Jahresbericht des preussischen Konsultats fur 1860. Preusssiches Handels-Archiv, 1861, no. 22, pp. 540-541. Ein Schreiben aus St. Thomas in Westindien iiber die freien Neger. Globus, vol. 4 (1863), 179. Die di&nische Insel St. Thomas in West-Indien. CC. von Scherzer. Ausland, 1864, no. 31. Die Insel St. Thomas in West Indien.. Globus, vol. 5 (1864), 154. Die Westindische Insel St. Thomas. Globus, vol. 12 (1868), 347. The Danish muddle. (The purchase of St. John and St. Thomas. ) The Nation, vol. 8 (April 1, 1869), 248. St. Thomas. (Descriptive sketch.) Cornhill Magazine, vol. 30 (Aug., 1874), 163. Every Saturday, vol. 17 (Aug. 29, 1874), 230. Eclectic Magazine, vol. 83 (Oct., 1874), 401. Littel?s Iiving Age, vol. 122 (Aug. 29, 1874), 609. The Hurricane Island. Herbert H. Smith. Cosmopolitan, vol. 4 (Sept., 1887), 65. A diplomatic episode. Illustrated. Olive Risley Seward. Scribner's Magazine, vol. 2 (Nov., 1887), 285. 1893-96. Momenter af Vestindiens Geografi. Troperne i Alminde- lighed. Barbados. Trinidad. De danske westindiske Oer. H. Lassen. Geografisk Tidskrift, vol. 12 (1893-94), 63; vol. 13 (1895-96), 60. . 13