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Anting-Anting Stories, by Sargent Kayme
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Title: Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos
Author: Sargent Kayme
Release Date: February 26, 2008 [EBook #24690]
Language: English
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ANTING-ANTING STORIES And Other STRANGE TALES of the FILIPINOS
By
Sargent Kayme
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company 1901
FOREWORD
The life of the inhabitants of the far-away Eastern islands in which the people of the United States are now so vitally interested opens to our literature a new field not less fresh and original than that which came to us when Mr. Kipling first published his Indian tales. India had always possessed its wonders and its remarkable types, but they waited long for adequate expression. No less wonderful and varied are the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Philippines, and a new author, showing rare knowledge of the country and its strange peoples, now gives us a collection of simple yet powerful stories which bring them before us with dramatic vividness