of the girls’ seminary of Santa Potenciana:  and of the various ministrations of the Jesuits in the hospitals and elsewhere in Manila.  The writer relates the methods of conducting the mission of Taytay, and events there during the year 1597.  Three fine churches are erected, and the missionaries gain the good-will not only of those Indians, but even of the savages in the mountains; the taming and conversion of one of these, the fiercest of his tribe, is narrated.  After him, entire villages come to live near the mission, the father in charge helping them to establish their homes there; he even converts all the heathen priests of one tribe.  Not only the Tagalos but the Negrillos resort to the mission, and many are converted.  Chirino laments the idolatries and superstitions which still linger among even the more civilized natives; and proceeds to recount their religious and superstitious beliefs.  All their religion is based on tradition and custom, and is handed down in songs.  Their beliefs regarding gods, demons, etc., are mentioned; Chirino reduces most of these to their adoration of their ancestors, in whose honor they worship various images.  They also worship animals, birds, and other natural objects; and have many superstitions.  Chirino demolishes the little buildings dedicated to the anitos.  Among those people their priests are also their physicians, or “medicine-men;” and in both roles they deceive the credulous and ignorant votaries of superstition.  The mode of offering sacrifices is described.  In the mission village at Taytay, certain idolatrous rites have been secretly practiced, under the influence of the heathen priestesses; but this is revealed by the faithful among the natives to the missionaries, who promptly eradicate the evil and demolish the idols.  All the heathen priestesses are converted, and now lead exemplary Christian lives.

Chirino remains alone in Cebu after Sedeno’s death (1595).  He not only maintains the usual services in the Jesuit church there, but undertakes to instruct the Chinese, whose language he soon learns sufficiently for that purpose.  He works in great harmony with the Augustinians of the city, who aid him in times of need; and with those of other orders who sometimes come to Cebu.  In September, 1596, some of the recently-arrived Jesuits are assigned to that city, and great activity ensues in their mission, including a school for children.  The Jesuits extend their labors to Leyte, which island is described by Chirino; he praises the hospitality and fraternal feeling which prevail among its people.  Five mission stations are established there, and many conversions are secured.  A sketch of the mission labors for 1597 in each of these posts is given—­Dulac, Carigara, Paloc, Alangalang, and Ogmuc.  In Dulac a church is erected, and a school opened, and many are converted.  The station at Caligara is also flourishing, and especial mention is made of two remarkable conversions there, one of a boy five years old.