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The Pre-Spanish Philippines | A suggestive scrap-book [ for students | Manila : 



MCM . XIV I [By Austin Craig]. 16 pp., 8vo. 

 Particulars of the Philippines' | Pre-Spanish Past | (Austin Craig) | [etc: 16 



lines] I Manila, MCM . XVI | (2), 29 pp., one plate, 8vo. (Press of E. 



C. McCullough & Co. Inc., Manila, P. I.) 

 The Malays | A study into the origin of | the foremost factor in the | 



peopling of the Philippines | [etc.: 19 lines] | Manila, MCM . XVI | 



16 pp., 8vo. (Press of E. C. McCullough & Co., Inc., Manila, P. I.) 



These interesting source pamphlets, complied by the ingenious 

 professor of history in the University of the Philippines, who 

 is also a member of the Philippine Academy, form part of an 

 attempt to penetrate the mystery that shrouds the origin of the 

 present inhabitants of the Philippines and their cultural sources. 

 Together with the contributions of Dr. N. M. Saleeby, also of 

 the same Academy, on the history and culture of the Moros of 

 the southern Philippines, they afford a valuable nucleus of 

 material with which to enter upon the survey of this inviting, 

 but hitherto neglected, field. 



Professor Craig's pamphlet on Malays is largely extracted 

 from General Forlong's Short Studies in the Science of Com- 

 parative Religions, which deals with the origin of the Malay 

 race and its primitive religious ideas. Like Saleeby, Forlong 

 believes that the Malays originated on the Asiatic mainland, 

 entering the East Indies from the north and long remaining 

 under the influence of Indian civilization. This theory finds 

 philological evidence in its favor, and in addition to that men- 

 tioned by Forlong, another item might be cited from Philippine 

 languages. Thus in the Tagalog there are not a few Sanscrit 

 words,' and the term Malay itself, instead of being derived, as 

 Forlong seems to think, from the Indian mala (hill) , may be more 

 probably connected with the Tagalog malayo (far) with its 

 allusion to the long wandering of the race which Forlong 

 emphasizes.* 



They have thronged East Africa above 1000 years, and have even a 

 colony at the Cape of Good Hope. They traded everywhere throughout 

 Madagascar — their Malagasa,* and the Mala-dvipas or Maldives. They colo- 



' See Pardo de Tavera, El Sanscrito en la lengua Tagalog. Paris (1887). 

 ' Malays, 2. 



* The similarity between Tagalog and Malagasay has been noted by 

 Philippine writers. 



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