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THE CHINA REVIEW.
HE widely-expressed regret at the dis- Chins and Japan, has induced the pabilah. ers of this journal to issue a publication similar in object and style, but lightly modified in certain details.
continuance of Notes de Queries on
Visitors' Column.
We have instituted as an experiment a VISITORS' COLUMN, which we trust
List of Public Buildings, Government House, North of Public
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1 From Novelty Lecet Wỹ we to the Harbour Marier's Office;
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tuguese, are admirable,
Endeavours
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The Chins Review for July and August, 1875, is at hand. It says that forty-two essays were sent in to compete for the best paper on the advantages of Christianity for the development of a Fiato. All our learn- ed societies should subscribe to this scholarly Beview. It is sixty repertory of what solo
The
and on China.
paged,
lats are
Lecture on
Poetry in this volume is Alone worth the price the Kevin, Ad-
China Review, Hongkong.-Northern Christion Advocate (0.8.)
Trubner's Uriental Record contains the tol- lowing notice of
of the Crine
China Reviste: This Is the title of of watch bas laly raton, the feet, pumber reached us from Hong- kong, where it has been set on foot se în A continuation of Notes and some respecte a Queries on China and Japa of which useful serial pan, the extinction
been much
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has
City liull, Library (8,000 volumes) and
Museum, Free Public Gardens, a beautifully picturesque
retreat and of
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the Parede Ground..
Roman Catholic Cathedral, Wellington
Street.
Union Church, Elgin Street.
St. Peter's Seamen's Church, West Point. St. Joseph's (R.C.) Church, Garden
Road, near Kennedy Rond. sen-faring meu, queen's Road Eas for Sailors Home, West Point.
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The Barracks and Naval and Military
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Hotels.
Stag Hotel, good accommodation for visitors at moderate rates, 110, Queen's Road Central.-J. Cook, Proprietar.
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to
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: regressed In Europe s In China. Thepresent publication, judging by t the number now befùra is intended to occupy a position, se regards China and the neighbouring countries, somewhat similar General Outätter, Hosier, Tailor, to that which has been filled in India by the &c.-T. N. DRISCOLL, 40 Lad 47, Calcutta Review. The great degree of st Queen's Road, by special appointment tention that has been bestowed late years to H.E. the Governor. upon the investigation of Chinese literature, antiquities, and social developments, to P accumulation of asudies, has led to the Maps and Charts.-G. FALCONER & CO., Exilerum, 4; Fia Galle, Letters, 25; Be F
of linguistic
of important stores of inform- asion, rendering some such channel of pub- licity as is now provided extremely desir able; and contributions of auch interest IHNY fairly
be looked for from the members of the foreign consular services, the Chinese Customs corps, and the missionary
the missionary house among whom a high degree of scholarship is now assiduously cultivated, and who are severally represented in the hat number of the Review by papers highly creditable to their respective authors. In Watches, Jewellery, Charts, Binocu
paper on Dr. Legge's She King, by the lars, Optical Instruments, Mordan's Rev. J,
which place honour is deservedly given, the piano of Pencilscuses, &c.-JonN NOBLE, agent summary is presented of the chronological for Negretti & Zambra problems and arguments involved in con- nazion with this important work. Some translations from Chinese novels and plays are marked by both accuracy and freshness of style; and an account of the carser of the Chinese poet-statesman of the eleventh
by
Mr. E. O
O Barxn,
century, Sausally valuable, but is alsó
la not only
noticex
the
the
and
Re
distinguished by its literary grace. Bazide of now books relating to China and which will be a useful featuro
if carried out with punctuality we are glad to notice that
Queries"
"are destinod to find a place in its pages also...
to be hoped that this opening for contributions on Chinese subjects may evoke a similar degree of literary zeal to that which was displayed during the lifetime of its prede censor in the field, and that the China
Reviews may receive the support necessary to faure Its continuance. The publication is intend ed to appear every two months, and will form a zubstantial cotavo magazine,
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