A READING LIST
Reading edition
RIZAL, JOSÉ.—The Monkey and the Tortoise. A Tagalog tale told in English and illustrated by Rizal. Manila, 1912.
—Elias and Salome. An unpublished chapter from the original Noli Me Tangere manuscript.
—The Whole Truth. (La Verdad para Todos.) A defense of the Filipinos.
—By Telephone (Por Teléfono). A satire.
—The Philippines A Century Hence (Filipinas Dentro de Cien Años). A forecast of the future.
—The Indolence of the Filipino (La Indolencia de los Filipinos). An answer to criticism.
—My Last Thought and other Poems. Translations by Charles Derbyshire and A. P. Fergusson.
—Mariang Makiling. A folk tale.
(These titles are in the Noli Me Tangere Quarter-Centennial Series, edited by Austin Craig. Translations are by Charles Derbyshire.) Manila, 1912.
—An Eagle Flight: A Filipino Novel. Adapted from Noli Me Tangere, with a short sketch of Rizal’s life. Anonymous translator. New York, 1900.
Manuscript of Rizal’s Great Novel, now in the Philippine Library.
El Filibusterismo is the second part, or sequel, of the novel Noli me tangere. Rizal’s first novel told the Filipinos of their faults; this book warned Spain of the danger of losing her colony unless the colonial government became better. “Filibusterer” was the name given to Filipinos who wanted reforms in the government.
House where El Filibusterismo was begun. This sketch, made in pencil was enclosed in a letter from Los Baños to Prof. Blumentritt.
—Friars and Filipinos. An abridged translation of Noli Me Tangere by F.E. Gannett. New York, 1900.
—The Social Cancer. Charles Derbyshire’s translation of Noli Me Tangere. Manila and New York, 1912.
—The Reign of Greed. Charles Derbyshire’s translation of El Filibusterismo. Manila and New York, 1912.
BLUMENTRITT, F.—Life of José Rizal. Translated from the German by H.W. Bray. Singapore, 1898.
—Views of Doctor Rizal, the Filipino Scholar, upon Race Differences. Translated from the German by R.L. Packard. Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 61 (July, 1902), pages 222–229.
HALSTEAD, MURAT.—The Story of the Philippines. Pages 190–201 give a translation of Rizal’s “The Vision of Friar Rodriguez” (La Visión de Fray Rodriguez) by F.M. de Rivas. Chicago, 1898.
CLIFFORD, Sir HUGH.—The Story of José Rizal, the Filipino. In Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 172 (Nov., 1902), pages 620–638.
CRAIG, AUSTIN.—Readings from Rizal. A series of selections from Rizal’s novels, in volume 1 of “The Philippine Teacher.” Manila, 1905.
—The Rizal Story in Pictures. A series of twenty-one post cards with authentic illustrations and explanations. Manila, 1908.
—The Story of José Rizal, the Greatest Man of the Brown Race. Manila, 1909.
—Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal. Manila and Yonkers-on-Hudson, 1912.
—Particulars of the Philippines’ Pre-Spanish Past. Dr. Rizal’s “Ibn Batutu’s Tawalisi the Northern Part of the Philippines” appears on pages 20–22. Manila, 1916.
CRAIG-FEE.—Rizal, the Martyr-Hero of the Philippines. An imaginative account, expanding the known facts, for youthful readers. In “Philippine Education.” Manila, 1913.
BLAIR-ROBERTSON.—The Philippine Islands 1493–1898. Rizal’s annotations to Morga’s 1609 History of the Philippines appear among the notes in Vols. XV and XVI. Cleveland, Ohio, 1904.
Brief sketches of Rizal’s life and work may be found in every encyclopedia published since 1898, the modern histories of the Philippines have extended references to him and the numerous recent works on the Philippines all attempt estimates of his influence upon his countrymen.
