Front matter

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."



                 EDITED BY AUSTIN CRAIG, RIZAL
              RESEARCH-PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY
                       OF THE PHILIPPINES



                     National Book Company
                          MANILA 1918







                 COPYRIGHT 1918 BY AUSTIN CRAIG
              Registered in the Philippine Islands


  Printed in the United States of America (Philippine Islands)
         Press of E. C. McCullough & Co., Manila, P. I.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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.

ILLUSTRATIONS

                                                             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

CONTENTS

        Handwritten quote: It is commonly said that the life of a
        good writer is best read in his works.

                                 --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'S OWN STORY

MY BOYHOOD

José Rizal wrote the first three chapters in 1878. He was seventeen
years old at that time.