Lineage, Life and Labors of Jose Rizal
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Lineage, Life and Labors of Jose Rizal by Austin Craig
By: Austin Craig

LINEAGE LIFE AND LABORS of JOSE RIZAL PHILIPPINE PATRIOT
BY AUSTIN CRAIG
INTRODUCTION In writing a biography, the author, if he be discriminating, selects, with great care, the salient features of the life story of the one whom he deems worthy of being portrayed as a person possessed of preeminent qualities that make for a character and greatness. Indeed to write biography at all, one should have that nice sense of proportion that makes him instinctively seize upon only those points that do advance his theme. Boswell has given the world an example of biography that is often wearisome in the extreme, although he wrote about a man who occupied in his time a commanding position. Because Johnson was Johnson the world accepts Boswell, and loves to talk of the minuteness of Boswell's portrayal, yet how many read him, or if they do read him, have the patience to read him to the end? In writing the life of the g

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