Sucesos, which he wrote in the British Museum. It was printed by Garnier Freres. The prologue was
written by Professor Blumentritt upon the request of Rizal
Rizal dedicated his new edition of Morga to the Filipino people so that they would know of their glorious
past
The title page of Rizal’s annotated edition of Morga reads: “Paris, Liberia de Garnier Hermanos, 1890”
The Philippines Within a Century
-article written by Rizal which he expressed his views on the
Spanish colonization in the Philippines and predicted with amazing accuracy the tragic end of Spain’s
sovereignty in Asia
The Indolence of the Filipinos
- other essay of Rizal is also a prestigious work of historical scholarship.
It is an able defense of the alleged indolence of the Filipinos
-Rizal made a critical study of the causes why his people did not work hard during the Spanish
regime. His main thesis was that the Filipinos are not by nature indolent
International Association of Filipinologists
-association proposed by Rizal to establish taking
advantage of world attention which was then focused at the Universal Exposition in 1889 in Paris and
have its inaugural convention in the French capital
Project for Filipino College in Hong Kong
- another magnificent project of Rizal in Paris which also
fizzled out was his plan to establish a modern college in Hong Kong
Por Telefono
-another satirical work as a reply to another slanderer,
Fr. Salvador Font
, who
masterminded the banning of his Noli, in the fall of 1889
-it was published in booklet form in Barcelona, 1889, this satirical pamphlet under the authorship
of
“Dimas Alang”
is a witty satire which ridicules Father Font
Shortly after New Year, Rizal made a brief visit to London. It may be due to two reasons:
(1) to check up
his annotated edition of Morga’s Sucesos with the original copy in the British Museum (2) to see Gertrude
Beckett for the last time
IN BELGIAN BRUSSELS (1890)
-
January 28, 1890
- Rizal left Paris for Brussels, capital of Belgium
-Two reasons impelled Rizal to leave Paris, namely
(1) the cost of living in Paris was very high because
of the Universal Exposition (2) the gay social life of the city hampered his literary works, especially the
writing of his second novel, El Filibusterismo
LIFE IN BRUSSELS
Rizal was accompanied by Jose Albert when he moved to Brussels. They lived in a modest boarding
house on 38 Rue Philippe Champagne, which was run by two Jacoby sisters (Suzanne and Marie). Later
Albert, left the city and was replaced by Jose Alejandro, an engineering student
Rizal was the first to advocate the Filipinization of its orthography
Sobre la Nueva Ortografia de la Lengua Tagala (The New Orthography of the Tagalog Language)
-
was published in La Solidaridad on April 15, 1890
-in this article, he laid down the rules of the new Tagalog orthography and with modesty and
sincerity, he gave credit for the adoption of this new orthography to Dr. Trinidad H. Pardo de Tavera,
author of the celebrated work El Sanscrito en la Lengua Tagala (Sanskrit in the tagalog Language) which
was published in Paris, 1884
