OFFICERS OF THE PHILIPPINE INFORMATION SOCIETY. Chairman: JAMES J. PUTNM, M.D., 106 Marlborough Street, Boston. Vice-Chairmen : HENRY CARTER ADAM PH.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. EDWARD G. BOURNE, .D., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. HENRY P. BOWDITCH, .D., Harvard Medical School, Boston. ARTHUR ASTOR CARY, State Street, Boston. RICHARD WATSON GILD, Century Building, New York. THOMAS C. MENDENHAI LL.D., Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass. JOSIAH ROYCE, PH.D., rvard University, Cambridge, Mass. WILLIAM T. SEDGWICK, J. D., Institute of Technology, Boston. Secretary: L. K. FER, 12 Otis Place, Boston. Treasurer: J. PENNINGTON GOINER, Colonial Building, Boston. FFICES: 62 WALL REET, NEW YORK. 12 OTIS EE, BOSTON, MASS. THE PHILIPPINE REVIEW is a monthly publica- tion furnishing in condensed and readily comprehensible form all current information concerning the political and social conditions in the Philippines, compiled from trustworthy sources, supplemented by correspondence from competent THE PRICE.-Subscription price is $1.00 a year, payable in advance; single copies, 10 cents. Membership in the LETTERS should be addressed, and CHECKS made General MacArthur's 1901 Report, which will be appended to the Report of the Secretary of War for November, 1901, is full of interesting and important information. After almost two years at the front and more than a year as Military Governor, General MacArthur is able to speak with greater authority than almost any other American on Philippine matters. Setting aside, for the time being, his review of past events and the accompanying reports of subordinate officers, we quote below his views on certain important questions which the Philippine problem has brought forward, namely, The Church Question, Chinese Immigration, Trade, and American Interests in the Far East. The Church Question. "Practical administrative questions touching the Church and the monastical orders," General MacArthur says,* "have not been numerous during the year. An effort has been made to adjust such as have arisen in accordance with the spirit of toleration and religious liberty which pervades the Constitu* Report of July 4, 1901, page 39. Received by the War Department, August, 1901. 3 ANDOVER THEOL SEMINARY NCH 12 1901 L |