Explorations by early Navigators, descriptions of the Islands and their Peoples, their History, and records of the Catholic Missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial, and religious conditions of those Islands from their earliest relations with European Nations to the end of the nineteenth century. * * * * * _Translated, and edited and annotated by_ E. H. BLAIR _and_ J. A. ROBERTSON, _with introduction and additional notes by_ E. G. BOURNE. * * * * * With Analytical Index and Illustrations. Limited edition, 55 volumes, large 8vo, cloth, uncut, gilt top. Price $4.00 net per volume. * * * * * “The almost total lack of acceptable material on Philippine history in English gives this undertaking an immediate value.” —JAMES A. LE ROY in _American Historical Review_. “With our freshened interest in the Far East, American readers ought not to neglect the new possessions in that region which now fly the Stars and Stripes.”—_Chicago Evening Post._ “Now at least there should be no difficulty for the American student to gain a clear view of the difficulties which both the Spaniards and their successors have had to contend with in these islands, when they have this work before them, and have not, as formerly, to obtain information from obscure Spanish sources, in a language hitherto comparatively little studied in the United States, ... welcome to all students of the Far East.” —_English Historical Review._ “The bare title hardly conveys an idea of the interesting lore embraced in this admirably carried out study of the roads and their part in the development of the country.”—_Boston Globe._ The Historic Highways of America by ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion. Comprising the following volumes: I— =Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals.= II— =Indian Thoroughfares.= III— =Washington’s Road: The First Chapter of the Old French War.= IV— =Braddock’s Road.= V— =The Old Glade (Forbes’s) Road.= VI— =Boone’s Wilderness Road.= VII— =Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent.= VIII— =Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin.= IX— =Waterways of Westward Expansion.= X— =The Cumberland Road.= XI, XII— =Pioneer Roads of America=, two volumes. XIII, XIV— =The Great American Canals=, two volumes. XV— =The Future of Road-Making in America.= XVI— =Index.=