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Title: Friars and Filipinos
An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel,
'Noli Me Tangere.'

Author: Jose Rizal

Translator: Frank Ernest Gannett

Release Date: October 17, 2009 [EBook #30278]

Language: English

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Friars and Filipinos

An abridged translation of

Dr. Jose Rizal's

Tagalog Novel, "Noli Me Tangere."

By
Frank Ernest Gannett.

New York:

The St. James Press.

Copyright, 1900,
by
Frank Ernest Gannett.

To

Jacob Gould Schurman,

President of Cornell University.

PREFACE.

While serving on the staff of the first United States Commission to the
Philippine Islands my attention was called to the life and writings
of Dr. Jose Rizal. I found in his novel, "Noli Me Tangere," the best
picture of the life of the people of those islands under Spanish rule,
and the clearest exposition of the governmental problems which Spain
failed to solve, and with which our own people must deal. It occurred
to me that an English translation of Rizal's work would be of great
value at the present time. My first intention was to reproduce the
entire novel as it was written, but, after careful consideration,
I thought best to abridge the story by the omission of some parts
which did not seem essential to the main purpose of the work. The
present volume is the result.

Readers should not understand any of Rizal's references to priests