[4] Retana mentions a paper, El Noticiero Filipino, which he conjectures to have been founded in 1838, following Francisco Diaz Puertas, who mentions it. Retana refers to this passage of Mallat. See his Periodismo filipino (Madrid, 1895), for data regarding the various newspapers and periodicals of the Philippines. This also appeared in instalments in Retana’s magazine La Política de España en Filipinas. [↑]
[5] See “Drama of the Filipinos” by Arthur Stanley Riggs in Journal of American Folk-Lore, xvii, no. lxvii; and Barrantes’s El teatro tagalo (Madrid, 1889). Mr. Riggs has ready for the press also a book on the drama of the Filipinos. [↑]
[6] “In the atlas is found the Comintango de la languista, noted with the accompaniment of piano and guitar, to which we have joined the words.” (Mallat, ii, p. 247, note). Bowring reproduces this music at the end of his [Visit to the Philippines]. [↑]
[7] In regard to the musical ability of the Filipinos, see the slightly adverse comments of Archbishop Nozaleda, in Senate Document, no. 190, 56th Congress, 2d session, 1900–1901, pp. 98–100. [↑]
[8] A dance allied to the quadrille, but with different and more graceful figures. [↑]
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