Words by José Rizal
(Arranged from Chas. Derbyshire’s translation; lines in different order.)
Tune of “The Wearing of the Green”
Words by José Rizal
(Chas. Derbyshire’s translation)
Music by Juan Hernandez
THE AUTHOR AT 14
RIZAL’S OWN STORY OF HIS LIFE
“IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND THERE ARE NAMES WHICH OF THEMSELVES SIGNIFY ACHIEVEMENTS. THEY CALL FORTH REVERENCE AND REMIND US OF GREATNESS.”
SIGNATURE ON THE MANUSCRIPT OF THE NOVEL “EL FILIBUSTERISMO”
Dr. W. W. Marquardt suggested this book.
Miss Josephine Craig advised and assisted in the selections.
Hon. C. E. Yeater read and criticised the original manuscript.
Miss M. W. Sproull revised the translations.
Dean Francisco Benitez acted as pedagogical adviser.
Miss Gertrude McVenn simplified the language for primary school use.
Mr. John C. Howe adapted and arranged the music.
Mr. Frederic H. Stevens planned the make-up and, in spite of wartime difficulties, provided the materials needed.
Mr. Chas. A. Kvist supervised the production.
Mr. C. H. Noronha, who, in 1897, in his Hongkong magazine Odds and Ends, first published Rizal’s farewell poem “My Last Thought”, was the careful and obliging proofreader.
Assistant Insular Architect Juan Arellano, a colleague of the editor on the Dapitan Rizal national park committee, designed the sampaguita decorations.
Mr. A. Garcia achieved creditable illustrations out of poorly preserved photographs whose historical accuracy has not been impaired by the slightest embellishment.
And the entire establishment of Messrs. E.C. McCullough & Company—printers, pressmen and bookbinders—labored zealously and enthusiastically to do credit to the imprint: “Made in Manila—The Work of Filipinos”.
The Memory of Rizal is kept alive in many ways:
1. A province near Manila bears his name.
2. The anniversary of his death is a public holiday.
3. A memorial school has been built by the Insular Government in his native town.
4. His home in exile has been made a national park.
5. The first destroyer of the future Philippine navy is named “Rizal”.
6. Rizal’s portrait appears on the two-peso bill.
7. Rizal’s portrait appears on the two-centavo postage stamp.
A 2-centavo postage stamp
A two-peso bill
A 2-centavo stamped envelope
A Philippine post card
Page
Rizal’s pencil sketch of himself 1
Rizal at 14 4
Rizal’s painting of his sister Saturnina 6
Rizal’s portrait on Philippine postage and money 8
Rizal’s home, Kalamba 12
Rizal’s mother and two of his sisters 16
Clay model of dog and cayman combat 17
Where Rizal went to school in Biñan 18
Rizal monument, Biñan 24
Santa Rosa Gate, on Biñan-Kalamba road 26
Model of a Dapitan woman at work 28
Rizal’s uncle 29
Rizal’s uncle’s home in Biñan 30
Guardia Civil soldier 31
Rizal’s mother 33
Rizal’s father 34
One of Rizal’s teachers, Terracotta bust by Rizal 36
Padre Sanchez, Rizal’s favorite teacher in the Ateneo 37
Carving of the Sacred Heart, made by Rizal in the Ateneo 44
Wooden bust of Rizal’s father 45
Rizal at 18 48
Rizal’s sacrifice of his life 57
Professor Burgos 58
The lake shore at Kalamba 60
A Manila school girl, drawn by Rizal 62
Rizal in Paris 64
Rizal at 30 66
Crayon portrait of Rizal’s cousin Leonore 70
Dapitan plaza and townhall 80
Wooden medallion of Mrs. José Rizal 84
Chalk pipehead, Rizal’s last modeling 86
Rizal at 27 90
Manila skyline, sketched by Rizal 92
Rizal at 22 104
Rizal at 24 106
Rizal at 26 108
Rizal at 28, from a group picture 110
Rizal at 28, profile 114
Rizal Mausoleum, Luneta, Manila 118
Noli Me Tangere manuscript-cover design, by Rizal 120
El Filibusterismo manuscript-cover, lettered by Rizal 121
Portrait of Rizal at time of finishing El Filibusterismo 121
Los Baños house where El Filibusterismo was begun, drawn by Rizal 121
Diploma of Merit awarded Rizal for allegory “The Council of the Gods” 123
Silver pen prize won by Rizal for poem “To Philippine Youth” 125
Alcohol lamp in which Rizal hid poem “My Last Thought” 125
—Autographic quotation from Rizal.
Page
Rizal’s Song “Hymn to Labor” 2
Rizal’s Song “Maria Clara’s Lullaby” 3
My Boyhood 13
My First Reading Lesson 49
My Childhood Impressions 59
The Spanish Schools of My Boyhood 61
The Turkey that Caused the Kalamba Land Trouble 65
From Japan to England Across America 69
My Deportation to Dapitan 73
Advice to a Nephew 81
Filipino Proverbs 83
Filipino Puzzles 84
Rizal’s “Don’ts” 85
Poem: Hymn to Labor 87
Memory Gems from Rizal’s Writings 91
Mariang Makiling 93
NOT BY RIZAL
The Memory of Rizal 8
Rizal Chronology 101
A Reading List 119
Philippine National Hymn (by José Palma) 126
Song: Hail, Philippines (by H. C. Theobald) 128
Rizal-Mercado home, Kalamba. Here José Rizal was born. The family lost this building, along with most of their other property, in the land troubles. Governor-General Weyler sent soldiers to drive them out, though the first court had decided in their favor and an appeal to the Supreme Court had not yet been heard. Later, the upper part of the building was rebuilt.
José Rizal wrote the first three chapters in 1878. He was seventeen years old at that time.
CHAPTER I
I was born on Wednesday, the nineteenth of June, 1861. It was a few days before the full of the moon. I found myself in a village. I had some slight notions of the morning sun and of my parents. That is as much as I can recall of my baby days.
The training which I received from my earliest infancy is perhaps what formed my habits. I can recall clearly my first gloomy nights, passed on the azotea of our house. They seem as yesterday! They were nights filled with the poetry of sadness and seem near now because at present my days are so sad. On moonlight nights, I took my supper on the azotea. My nurse, who was very fond of me, used to threaten to leave me to a terrible but imaginary being like the bogey of the Europeans if I did not eat.
I had nine sisters and a brother. Our father was a model parent. He gave us the education which was suitable in a family neither rich nor poor. He was thrifty. By careful saving, he was able to build a stone house. He also bought another house; and he put up a nipa cottage on our plot of irrigated ground. The cottage was shaded by bananas and trees.