The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898
Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century,
Volume XLVI, 1721-1739
Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne.
The Arthur H. Clark Company Cleveland, Ohio MCMVII
CONTENTS OF VOLUME XLVI
Preface 13
Document of 1721-1739
Events in Filipinas, 1721-1739. Compiled from various authors, fully credited in text 31
Bibliographical Data 63
Appendix: Education in the Philippines
Primary instruction. In various parts, as follows: I. First governmental attempts. Vicente Barrantes; Madrid, 1869. [Condensed from his La instrucción primaria en Filipinas.] II. Organized effort of legislation. Daniel Grifol y Aliaga; Manila, 1894. [From preface to his La instrucción primaria en Filipinas.] III. Royal decree establishing plan of primary instruction in Filipinas. José de la Concha; December 20, 1863. [From Grifol y Aliaga's La instrucción primaria en Filipinas; as are all the following parts.] IV. Regulations for the normal school. José de la Concha; December 20, 1863. V. Regulations for schools and teachers of primary instruction. José de la Concha; December 20, 1863. VI. Interior regulations of schools of primary instruction. José de la Concha; December 20, 1863. VII. Decree approving regulations of municipal girls' school.----Echague; February 15, 1864. VIII. Regulations for the municipal girls' school. Manila Ayuntamiento; February 15, 1864. IX. Circular giving rules for the good discharge of school supervision.----Gándara; August 30, 1867. X. Decree approving regulations for women's normal school.----Malcampo; June 19, 1875. XI. Regulations for women's normal school.----Malcampo; June 19, 1875. XII. Royal decree creating women's normal school. María Cristina and Francisco Romero Robledo; March 11, 1892. XIII. Royal order approving regulations for women's normal school. Francisco Romero Robledo; March 31, 1892. XIV. Regulations for women's normal school. Francisco Romero Robledo; March 31, 1892. XV. Decree elevating men's normal school to the grade of superior. Hermenegildo Jacas; November 1, 1893; and A. Avilés and Manuel Blanco Valderrama, November 10, 1893. XVI. Regulations of superior normal school for men teachers. Manuel Blanco Valderrama, November 10, 1893. XVII. School legislation, 1863-1894 67
Dominican educational institutions, 1896-1897. [Unsigned and undated.] 261
Report of religious schools, 1897. [Unsigned and undated.] 265
Educational institutions of the Recollects. [Unsigned and undated; 1897?] 268
The friar viewpoint. In two parts. I. Education. Eduardo Navarro, O.S.A.; Madrid, 1897. [From his Estudio de algunos asuntos de actualidad.] II. Eladio Zamora, O.S.A.; Valladolid, 1901. [From his Las corporaciones religiosas en Filipinas.] 272
Education since American occupation. Editorial, and compiled from various sources 364
ILLUSTRATIONS
Plan of Cebú Cathedral; drawn by Juan de Siscarra, engineer, 1719; photographic facsimile of original MS. map in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla Frontispiece Autograph signature of Joseph Torrubia, O.S.F.; from original manuscript in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 35 Title-page of Dissertacion historico-politita, by Joseph Torrubia (Madrid, 1753); photographic facsimile from copy in library of Harvard University 41 Map showing new route from Manila to Acapulco, presented to Governor Fernando Valdés Tamón by the pilot, Enrique Hermán, 1730; photographic facsimile of original MS. map in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 49 Plan of infantry barracks in Manila; drawn by the military engineer, Thomas de Castro y Andrade, 1733; photographic facsimile from original manuscript in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 53