History of Philippine press / Carson Taylor.

Histry of the Philippine Press

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review; El Correo de Manila; in 1876, weekly; Boletin Eclesiastico del Arzobispado de Manila; also in 1876.
La Oceania Espanola, a daily was founded in 1877,
apparently soon after El Porvenir Filipino ceased publication. It continued until 1899. Retana offers this comment
concerning its demise:
"La Oceania Espafola had no reason for its existence
after the change of sovereignty. As after the treaty of
Paris there was no longer a Spanish, but a North American
ocean, and that great daily died."
El Avisador de Manila was published for a few months
in 1877, and El Oriente was succeeded by a similar weekly
under the name of La Ilustracion del Oriente, which only
lasted until the early part of the following year.
A weekly, called La Catalan, was published and also
La Lira Filipina, in 1878.
In 1879 the president of the Liceo put out a weekly
which was later changed to semi-monthly, under the name
of Revista del Liceo-Artistico-Literato de Manila. The
last number appeared in December 1881.
A new daily appeared in 1880 under the title of Diario
de Filipinas, and for six months, until it died, Manila had
four daily papers, the three others being the Diario de Manila, La Oceania Espafola and El Comercio.
In 1881 La Linterna Ecuestre (meaning Equestrian
Lantern) was published for a brief period, as a weekly,
doubtless sponsored by some enthusiastic horseman.
A weekly, called the Boletin de Avisos, also came out
in 1881, later was published twice a week, but did not
prosper.
Five publications were established in 1882. The first
was published by a society founded by one of the religious
orders as an official organ of the society. It was called
the Boletin de la Real Sociedad Economica Filipina de Amigos del Pais. It was devoted principally to agriculture and
appears to have been continued as a monthly until 1899.
The second, called the Revista Filipina de Ciencias y
Artes, succeeded the Revista del Liceo. After twelve issues
it ceased publication with the announcement that there were
not enough people interested in the arts and sciences to
support it.
The third, the Boletin de la Libreria Espafiola, only
published a few numbers, the last of which contained an
announcement of its discontinuance, ending with this sentence: "Here we have another demonstration of how few
people in the Philippines read"