El Filibusterismo, the second of Jos Rizal's novels of Philippine life, is a story of the last days of the Spanish r gime in the Philippines. Under the name of The Reign of Greed it is for the first time translated into English. Written some four or five years after Noli Me Tangere, the book represents Rizal's more mature judgment on political and social conditions in the islands, and in its graver and less hopeful tone reflects the disappointments...