Excerpt from The Philippine Islands
Abundant has been the crop of magazine articles and even more formal treatises on the Philippine Islands since our war with Spain; yet superabundant have been the showers of inquiries which the writer has encountered time and again since his return from time Islands, in connection both with a series of lectures recently delivered upon the subject and with informal talks from time to time. The existence of so much available material and at the same time the lack of precise information concerning the Philippines in those who show a real interest in the matter have by the very incompatibility thus suggested engaged his attention and seemed significant. The explanation which alone seems possible, assuming that the interest is as sincere and active as he has been led to believe, is that this material has not been prepared and presented in such a way as to attract the ordinary reader and enable him easily to get an accurate and substantial knowledge of the situation.
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