Standing between these shelves in the National Library of the Philippines Rare Books Division reminds me of a line from Chaucer:...

Standing between these shelves in the National Library of the Philippines Rare Books Division reminds me of a line from Chaucer:
“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.” (Parlement of Foules).
These boxes contain the “Philippine Insurgent Records” that are the primary source for any study of the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine-American War. Captured documents of the Malolos Republic were brought to the U.S. and arranged by Capt. J.R.M. Taylor into a five-volume compilation in Eng...