The language in which these stories are presented is the language in which they were collected and written down,-English. Their importance consists in their relationship to the body of world fiction. It is therefore from this point of view that these tales have been put Lying as it does at the very doors of China and Japan,Ĭonnected as it is ethnically with the Malayan and Indian civilizations, Occidentalized as it has been for three centuriesĪnd more, it stands at the junction of East and West. The Philippine archipelago, from the very nature of its geographical position and its political history,Ĭannot but be a significant field to the student of popular stories. Of Oriental Märchen already in existence. They are given to the public now in the hope that they will be no mean or uninteresting addition to the volumes The folk-tales in this volume, which were collected in the Philippines during the years from 1908 to 1914, have not appeared
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