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The project is impressive in its scale and, to judge by the list of documents appended, will cover the ground with great thoroughness. If carried to completion, it will certainly be a most valuable reservoir of sources. We heartily wish it success.—, Librarian of Congress.

Such an undertaking would be decidedly useful in furnishing the historical data necessary to a proper understanding of the political, social, and religious problems of the Philippines. The work which you did as assistant editor of the Jesuit Relations is a satisfactory guarantee of the excellence of the editorial work.—, Director of the School of History, University of Wisconsin.

I commend your plan of reproducing, with the chief authorities on Philippine history, linguistics, and antiquities, also the many documents (drawn from Church and civil sources, here and abroad) bearing on the several religious, social, political, and economic phases of that quarter of Malaysia—all media of acknowledged value in the solution of problems in the various realms of science, industry, and trade that are bound to confront statesmen as well as men of affairs in their dealings with those far-away islanders. This enterprise will, it is undoubted, result in a monumental work, of admirable perspective, on broad and scholarly lines—a veritable Encyclopedia Philippina, that must commend itself to men of intellective, upright spirit.—, O. S. A., Professor of Church History in Villanova College, and Chairman of Committee on Historical Research of American Catholic Historical Society.

One is divided between admiration of the enterprise and audacity of the undertaking, and satisfaction in the prospect of having available in the English language such a mine of information about the islands and their people. If anything can save us from many and egregious mistakes in our dealings with these distant wards of ours it will be knowledge of them, a knowledge deep and far-reaching. One must conclude that this effort should command the hearty endorsement of American scholars, statesmen, and patriots everywhere.—, Librarian Amherst College.