Bulletin of the Free Library of Philadelphia Number 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...material for good press-work--being of five or six different qualities in body, make, color. This work, that I think we may style a triumph of adaptive art, is the Ensayo para una Galeria de Asturianos ilustres, a genealogical monument (in three volumes), by the Augustinian antiquary, Fabiano Rodriguez, begun in 1888 and completed in 1893. While the last Cebu imprint, a government statistical report on crime and the like, is dated 1892. 10.--Tambobong, a, pueblo near the coast, in Tondo province, about three miles from Manila, comes tenth in our list, where, at the orphan asylum of Our Lady of Consolation, in 1889, was printed a weekly newspaper--the Revista Catblica de Filipinas--discontinued in 1896. While the last imprint from this press--An Abridgment of the History of Spain (of only eight pages)--was issued, presumably, in 1897. 11.--At Nueva Caceres, or Camarines, in Luzon, a town founded in 29 the sixteenth century by Governor Francisco Sande, in memory of his birthplace in Estremadura, but now known even officially as Naga, the first work bearing the name of that pueblo--a hand-book of devotions--issued from the press of the Sagrada Familia, in 1893; and two years later (in 1895) the last--A Life of St. Monica and her son, St. Augustine--written, the same as the former, in Bicol dialect. 12.--In 1895, we read the earliest printed samples of Malabon art--a poetical tribute of gratitude to Our Lady of Welcome--Bien-Venida, one of the many titles of the Mother of God, so dear to Philippine soul, by Fructuoso Arias Camis6n, from the orphan-press of Our Lady of Consolation (in care of Augustinians). Only once, it may be noted, is the name of this pueblo--encountered quite frequently in Retana, the same (he says) as Tamb6bong, written "Malab6ng, ..".