Manila and the Philippines - Margherita Arlinna Hamm (1898)

This volume is based upon notes made by the author while a resident and traveler in the Far East.

Some have been used in newspaper correspondence for the New York Mail and Express, the New York Sun, the New York Herald, the Baltimore American, the Chicago Inter- Ocean, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Hong Kong Telegraph.

All has been rewritten and brought down to date as far as it has been possible. The difficulties have been numerous on account of the Spanish official pol

icy of which the chief object apparently is the suppression of all information concerning their Colonial possessions.

The Author has met representatives from the five classes that compose Philippine society: the Church, the Army, the Office-holders, the Merchants, and the Revolutionists, and thus has had the opportunity of seeing Spanish Colonial dominion from as many points of view.

This is dedicated by the Author to Rizal and Aguinaldo - Dead and Living Hero of that times.