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 Biair and Robei-tson : The Philippine Islands 1 43 wider political world he was against the forward policy in India just as he was against the Boer War. For him, as a Liberal of the old school, the times grew more and more out of joint. Shortly before his death, viewing the New Imperialism and the New Socialism, he said, " There is nothing for the isolated thinker to do but to sit by and wonder what will come next." George M. Wrong. BOOKS OF AMERIC.N HISTORY The Philippine Islands. 140^-1898. Edited by Emma Helen Blair and James A. Robertson. 'o1. XXVIII. , 1637-1638. Vol. XXX., 1640. Vol. XXXI., 1640. A'ol. XXXII., 1640. Vol. XXXIII., 1519-1522. Vol. XXXIV., 1519-1522, 1280- 1605. 'ol. XXXV., 1629-1649. 'ol. XXXVI., 1649-1666. Vol. XXXVII., 1669-1676. o. XXXVIII., 1674-1683. (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company. 1905-1906. Pp. 370. Z2?,, 301. 299, 367, 453, 325, 308, 307, 287.) This large undertaking, despite the lack of appreciation with which it has met, goes forward with great promptness on the publisher's part and with much faithfulness of effort on the part of the diligent editors. Of the twelve volumes issued during 1905, four are here before us for review, in which matters ecclesiastico-historical dominate, while the volumes XXXIII. to XXXVIIL, issued during the first half of 1906, are more general in character. The " ecclesiastical appendix " occupies nearly all of volume XXVIII. , while the Dominican history of Friar Diego Aduarte takes up two-thirds of volume XXX. and the entire two succeeding volumes. The appendix in question is a very useful compilation and translation of extracts from published works, from Colin's Labor Evangclica (Madrid, 1663), which goes back to the earliest missionary days, down to the Jesuit father Algae's survey of the state of church and religion in the Philippines at the collapse of Spanish rule. The Jesuit Delgado and the Franciscan father San Antonio show very well the state of the Philippine church in the first half of the eighteenth century, after the most active missionary work was over. The best selections of all are the general discussions of matters religious and ecclesiastical in the Philippines by the French traveller Le Gentil {Voyages dans les Mcrs dcs hides, Paris, 1781), the German traveller Jagor {Rciscn in den Philippinen, Berlin, 1873; in the Philippines in 1859), and the Spanish official Sinibaldo de Mas {Informe sobre el Estado de las Islas Filipinos en 1841 (Madrid, 1843). The statistical tables of the church (on population, parishes, etc.), taken from the Bazeta and Bravo Diccionario (Madrid, 1850) and a recent history of Philippine Recollects (Manila, 1879), fill a place, — but the narrative passages from the latter are not altogether reliable. Besides prefixing