Includes index.

Short story

Dead stars / Paz Marquez-Benitez

Sunset / Paz Latorena

Zita / Arturo B. Rotor

Poetry

The Angelus / Natividad Marquez

Silent trails / M. de Gracia Concepcion

Air castles / Juan F. Salazar

To a lost one / Angela Manalang-Gloria

When done for thee / Alfredo Elfren Litiatco

Essay

what is an educated Filipino? / Francisco Benitez

Life's high tide / Jorge C. Bocobo

Ningas cogon / Francisico B. Icasiano

Morning in Nagrebcan / Manuel E. Arguilla

My father's tragedy / Carlos Bulosan

Wedding dance / Amador T. Daguio

Seven hills away / N.V.M. Gonzales

The morning before us / Gilda Cordero-Fernando

Love in the cornhusks / Aida Rivera-Ford

Three generations / Nick Joaquin

Even purple hearts / Bienvenido N. Santos

Poetry

God said. "I made a man" / Jose Garcia Villa

"I have observed blue monks eating pink raisins" / Jose Garcia Villa

First poem must be magical / Jose Garcia Villa

The bright, centipede / Jose Garcia Villa

An infant's death / Conrado V. Pedroche

The flaming lyre / Amdor T. Daquio

My islands / N.V.M. Gonzales

The march of death / Bienvenido N. Santos

Like the molave / R. Zulueta da Costa

Soft night / Abelardo Subido

Sonnet to a gardener : II / Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido

Four sonnets / Toribia Maño

The innocence of Solomon / Nick Joaquin

Essay

Jose Garcia Villa : the true measure of his greatness / Florentino S. Dauz

For freedom and democracy / Salvador P. Lopez

Pliant like the bamboo / I.V. Mallari

On Spain's contribution to the Philippines

Nationalism and culture / Claro M. Recto

Revising Asian history / Carlos P. Romulo

Short story

The virgin / Kerima Polotan-Tuvera

The chambers of the sea / Edith L. Tiempo

Death in a sawmill / Rony V. Diaz

Clay / Juan T. Gatbonton

Faith, loce, time and Dr. Lazaro / Gregorio C. Brillantes

Love to sell / Manuela Samson

Poetry

Poro point / Alejandrino G. Hufana

Bibliophile / Edith L. Tiempo

My neighbor / Ricaredo Demetillo

Worms / G. Bruce Bunao

Street urchin / Tita Lacambra-Ayala

Montage / Ophelia Alcantara-Dimalanta

Prison / Mila D. Aguilar

A way of coming home / Alfredo N. Salanga

What does a woman own? / Cirilio F. Bautista

Essay

Understanding through the arts / Leonardo Z. Legazpi

Filipino folk art / Alfredo R. Roces

The Filipino and the humanism of the West / Miguel A. Bernard

Nayong Pilipino / Nati Nuguid

A heritage of smallness / Quijano de Manila

I learned to love Manila after leaving her / Christine Montilla Dorffi

Drama

Straw patriot / Virginia R. Moreno