scenes are taken from Philippine textbooks of the World Book Company
and whose borders were made in the Drawing Department of the Philippine
School of Arts and Trades.

The frontispiece shows a hurried pencil sketch of himself which
Rizal made in Berlin in the Spring of 1887 that Prof. Blumentritt,
whom then he knew only through correspondence, might recognize him at
the Leitmeritz railway station when he should arrive for a proposed
visit. The photograph from which the engraving was reproduced came
one year ago with the Christmas greetings of the Austrian professor
whose recent death the Philippine Islands, who knew him as their
friend and Rizal's, is mourning.

The picture perhaps deserves a couple of comments. As a child Rizal
had been trained to rapid work, an expertness kept up by practice, and
the copying of his own countenance from a convenient near-by mirror
was but a moment's task. Yet the incident suggests that he did not
keep photographs of himself about, and that he had the Cromwellian
desire to see himself as he really was, for the Filipino features
are more prominent than in any photograph of his extant.

The essay itself originally appeared in the Filipino forthrightly
review, La Solidaridad, of Madrid, in five installments, running
from July 15 to September 15, 1890. It was a continuation of Rizal's
campaign of education in which he sought by blunt truths to awaken his
countrymen to their own faults at the same time that he was arousing
the Spaniards to the defects in Spain's colonial system that caused
and continued such shortcomings.

To-day there seems a place in Manila for just suets, missionary work