QUESTIONS AND TOPICS 1. What do you consider the greatest service rendered the Philippines by Spain? 2. What the most serious defects in her policy? 3. Compare the social and political advancement of the Filipinos with that of other Malay peoples. 4. Make a study of the public school system as applied to the Filipino peoples, its most serious problems, possible dangers, most obvious needs. 5. Trace the history of the Chinese in the Philippines; their value to the country; the cause of the Filipino prejudice against them; their present condition. 6. What policy should our country adopt toward the Chinese in the Philippines? 7. Study comparatively the Chinese in America, Hawaii, the Philippines. 8. Write a paper from the standpoint of an honest and ardent Friar recounting the benefits brought to the Philippines by the Roman Catholic Church. 9. The story of the opium traffic in the Philippines, its regulation, the example of Japan in Formosa. 10. If fifty thousand dollars yearly were to be appropriated for missionary work in the Philippines, where could it be expended to the best advantage? In what sort of work? Why? BIBLIOGRAPHY GENERAL REFERENCE BOOKS NEWCOMBE. Encyclopedia of Missions: Verbose, but valuable for side lights on early missions. Scribner, 1854. Encyclopedia of Missions. New Edition. Valuable. Funk & Wagnalls. WARNECK. History of Protestant Missions. Seventh Edition in translation. Eighth Edition not yet translated. Particularly good on Dutch missions. Revell, 1901. DENNIS. Christian Missions and Social Progress. Revell. Statesman's Year Book, 1905. Macmillan. DWIGHT. Blue Book of Missions. Funk & Wagnalls, 1905. BEACH (Harlan P.). estant Missions. Company, N.Y. Geography and Atlas of Prot- Ecumenical Missionary Conference Report. 2 volumes. American Tract Society. STOCK (Eugene). History of Church Missionary Society. 3 volumes. London. LOVETT (Richard). History of London Missionary Society. Oxford Press. History of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. In preparation. Congregational Publishing House. HORNE (C. Silvester). The Story of the London Missionary Society. New Edition. One volume, illustrated. Very good. London, 1904. ALEXANDER (J. M.). Islands of the Pacific. One Volume, illustrated. American Tract Society. 270 BANKS (Martha). Heroes of the South Sea. American Tract Society. ELLIS (William). Polynesian Researches. Early authority. Harper, 1833. FRANCIS (B.). The Isles of the Pacific. Small, fully illustrated, largely geographical. Cassell and Co. COUSINS (George). From Island to Island. Illustrated. London Missionary Society. GILL (W. W.). Jottings from the Pacific. Religious Tract Society, London. GILL (W. W.). From Darkness to Light in Polynesia. London, Religious Tract Society, 1894. COOPER (H. S.). Coral Lands. Two volumes. Fine on the commercial development. London, Bentley & Co., 1880. ERSKINE (T. E.). Islands of the Western Pacific. Book of travels, delightful old engravings. London, John Murray, 1853. STODDARD (C. W.). South Sea Idylls. Exquisite descriptions of scenery. GREY (Sir George). Polynesian Mythology. Most interesting. Auckland, H. Brett, 1885. THOMSON (Basil). South Sea Yarns. Blackwood & Sons, 1894. Stories of Native customs and the tradition in regard to Savage, the shipwrecked Swede. In Boston Public Library. HELMOLT. History of the World. Vol. II. Dodd and Mead, 1904. IN PREPARATION: A volume of articles reprinted from Missionary Review of the World, valuable, illustrated, inexpensive. Funk & Wagnalls. THE SOCIETY AND HERVEY ISLANDS BANKS (Martha B.). Heroes of the South Seas. American Tract Society, 1896. ALEXANDER. Islands of the Pacific. American Tract Society. GILL (W. W.). Jottings from the Pacific. London, Religious Tract Society. HORNE. Story of the London Missionary Society. HAGEN (Karl). Über die Musik einiger Naturvölker (Australier, Melanesier, Polyenesier). Schlotke, Hamburg, Germany, 1892. Contains native songs, words and music, with German translation. Cannibal song, wedding music, dance, dirge, etc. In Boston Public Library. Covers entire field. WILLIAMS (John). Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Seas. Out of print-of great interest. In many libraries. ELLIS (James T.). sive, valuable. Life of John Williams. Inexpen- WILSON (William). A Missionary Voyage to the Account of the voyage of the Duff to Society Islands, by one of the officers. Quaint print, chart of the course of the Duff, journals, old steel engravings. A treasure mine of interest for the first lesson. GILL (W. W.). Myths and Songs from the South Pacific. SAMOA STAIR (J. B.). Old Samoa. London, 1897. STEVENSON (Robert Louis). A Footnote to History. London, 1892. STEVENSON (R. L.). Vailima Letters. London, 1895. HORNE. Story of the London Missionary Society. BANKS. Heroes of the South Seas. ALEXANDER. Islands of the Pacific. TURNER (Rev. George). Nineteen Years in Polynesia. London, Snow, 1861. An authority on Samoa, founder of Training School at Malua. MAGAZINE ARTICLES Poetry of the Polynesians, Overland, March, April, 1903. Samoan Arbitration, Outlook, Nov. 1, 1902. |