Jagor's “Philippine Islands”

Abstract

THE increasing importance which the Philippines are assuming in both English and American commerce, the comparative insufliciency of the information we possess concerning them, and the beauty and productiveness of nearly the whole region, amply justify the ardour with which the author of this volume has devoted himself to a thorough exploration of the group, and an exhaustive study of every feature of interest appertaining to its component islands and their population. In this very interesting and acceptable work he has given to the world the results of his observation and inquiries, and of these it may be said that, while in point of extent and variety they are sufficiently comprehensive to embrace within their limits every subject of interest or of practical importance to which we should expect to find a place assigned in a book of travels having any pretensions to completeness, they bear the evident impress of the patient, laborious research, and the careful examination and weighing of facts, for which his countrymen are famous.

Reisen in den Philippinen,

von F. Jagor. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen und einer Karte. (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. 1873.)