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· THE FOOL'S EPITAPH. Sleep well, sweat kuave of cap and boils,

Our brother of the braver heart, Who dared to seom the thing he was And scorned the hypocritic part. Who cepured month his fardel's woight, And garly clashed fato's felter links, And snapped his fingers ut life's frown,

And bandied humor with the Sphinx.

We cowards cloak our motley garb

Beneath convention's ample fold, And greet our brother's antis grin

With alien looks, austere and old. Our palo, wan lips would fail duny

Folly, thu heritage of oneli, Although it peop from many a rent And Jingle in our foolish speech.

Brother, we look at thy stout heart To scorn the contumeliuus glance, To flaunt our motley, shake our bells

'And join earth's burly burly dance. Sleep well, sweet fool; like thee, wo live

In open guise or unconfcased, No what more wino, not half as brave, Until, like thee, wo, tuo, and rost. -Arthur Market Camianuga, in Life.

ULTIMA THULE.

BY HALL CAINE.

Ducing the summer of this year I visited Iceland, and there I saw and heard much that interested mio vary deeply.

Ali, well with me, I shall go to Iceland again, and live among the bondets in their mountain solitudes, and among the fiahor-folk an their desolate coasts. I liked the Iceland people;

I think they liked me; at all events, we got along agrecably. So far us could judge, they were under little or no roserve in my prosence, and they seemed sinuere in wisting, leak I should see moto of their inner life and character, Tho Isolander is not master in his own house,

I

and this makes him very sensitive on many I did not probe the sare places, puints. and he was too proud to make any dieplay of them. But on the other hand, bo mado no concealmont, and I think it lies at the bolton of his heart that if England and Amorios knew how mattors stand with him, perhaps help of some peaceful aurt would come his way. I have no doubt that he is right in that, and I wish. I had suficient command of the facts and of the ear of England to with confidence what I think of the relation of Denusuk towards Iceland. That any come nome day, and meantime all I wish to do here is to gossip in an easy way on some aspects of Iceland character as I saw it in the course of a short visit.

that would not compare favourably with an Irish cabin in Connemara ; bo cats lish and feh-broad, and drinke poor coffee and weak skyr, and sometimes a bottle of light wis called brenni-via. On the whole, I dare say. Jónas is looked upon as a fairly pro sperous man, and compared with the glionda that bang about the vilinges of the interior ho is indeed a thriving morelinat. It is a hard life the Icolanders live on their lava rack of the northern seas, but they love it Gud cling to it as no Frenchman and no Italian ever loved the lands that natura no AG bandantly blessed.

Before going to Iceland I had made a close study of certain Toclandic jurispru- donco, and I was prepared both for great reverence of law and great simplicity in the carrying out of justice. But one story that came my way botaged: simpleness that aurpagged simplicity. An interesting young Lealander, who had lived in Scotland, tuid me that guing across the desert some thre age he met a man on his pory, riding to warda Akayari. Such meetings are rare in Chose parts, and like ships on the oa the two men hailed nad spaleo. And this was

the manner and substance of their intor.

What's

Course→→

Stofur Four name 24

! Whose son ?

Thorsteinsson.*

Where are you going 27 To prison. What for

STOCKS.

Banks. Hongkong & Shanghai Bark-}

ing Corporation....

7.11

Estabkshed.

Marine Insurances. Unton Tourines Sariety of 18678

Canton, Limited

Chiun Traders' Insurange Co., LA, 1865's North China Insurance Co., Ld. 1963.

Yangtze Insur. Association, La. 1882 £ Chinese Tamurance Co., Ld. 16718

fin liquidationý Cantor Insurance Office, Ld.1661$

Stecile Insurance Co, Ld....

Fire Insurances. Hongkong Fire Insur. Co., Ld.

China Fire Insurance Cv., J.d. Straits Fire Insurance Co., LJ. Fire and Marine Insurances. Singapore Insurance Co., Ld:

́ ́Stealing a shoop.'.

No one taking you?'

THE CHINA MAIL.

They exchanged me and a kiss and parted. A week later my young friend. was returning to Reykjavik, and near the dame place he met the raine mad.

What he cried, Stofan Thorsteins on? Why, you said you were going to prison."

and I went, but they would Why not?! Becato I had lost iny payors, and the Shariff at Alegeri said he could not receive me without them.'

• So J not let me

So you are going lione again?

YOP.

I have every reason to believe that this story (short of the names) is strictly true.

The position of woman in Ireland Is not by my runs such as would satisfy the leaders of dio wanan's rights ineremont. Among the more educated people in Reykjavik who have travelled in Europe and America there is a distinet and incruas tendency towards the tannors of was teen civilisation, but the treatment of wives andmother's and female servants in remote places is Eastern in its savecity. A wile is nut in any visiblc dugrue the mistress of her own huge, and she is certainly not the hostess at her own table. Shadyee nut eit with hor husband's guests. As often as wat

the

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THE CHINA REVIEW.

PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY.

giros papera on Trade, Commerce, and Descriptivo notos of Travel by well-know writem. It was thought that by extending the scope of the view in this direction, the Blagazine would be mademoro generally useful.

sho does not appear, and is hardly seen ut to be words of welcome. This went on for women folk, and a lifetimo without really In ho inland places, all; or if seen the is seen for a tow mo- Levoral minutes, when forgotting all I hads, knowing them. No, the Sheriff was busy, so he gave moments only, and then goes back to her heard, and every warning I had received among the forming people, the women are

the howars of wood and the drawers my papers (his warrant), and sont me on by kitchen. The kitchen is her home, and she concerning the position of woman in an

is in if carly and late. Even when she is Teeland bomo, I rose and offered the lady a water Of course they have their other nyself

the wife of a rich man, as riches are count chair. I shall not soon forget the result of function, their natural one, that of the HS Renew, which was intended to meet motliers of children, but qven in that rela- the wants of many students of Chinese ed in her country, she is usually her own my indiscretion The wife looked confu cook, and always lier own housekeeper. sion, coloured, stammered, and shook her fan it cannot be said that over much atten. cared by the discontinuance of Notes and Those ato broad descriptions of her position, hond. Bler husband said, "No, no, no, cion is paid to them. The laws of the Queries on China and Japan, has reached its and I know how easy it is to or in auch no quickly, very emphatically, and with a country are not made for them, and where Eighteenth Volume. The Review discussss counts of a people but slightly known gesture of annopance and extreme im they appear to favour them they are often those topics which are uppermost in the Certainly I myself witnessed wors than one patience. At the next moment I had re-favouring the other sex indirectly. Down minds of students of the Far East' and instance of what looked like the humiliation sumed my seat, hot and cold by turns, to recent years the priests were forbidden about which every intelligent person con- of woman to English exus. I visited at the wife had gone back to her kitchen, and the to marry any woman who could not road acolod with China or Japan is desirous of house of an azdeliont and able man, who is, husband, who had rogained his natural and write. This regulation was clearly not acquiring trustworthy information. It in- if I counter aright, a member of Althing. ariability, was amiling as if aaying within designed for the more enlightenment of the adds many interesting Nota and original female sos, but out of regard for the fact Papers on the Arta, Sciences, Ethnology, He received me alone, and was very friend-himself, I had forgotten that you were an

the Folkloro, decgraphy, History, Literature, that the women are the first, and often the ly and hospitable. I asked if he had any Englishman." family and he called for his children. They I dare say this sort of thing does not only teachers of their children; and if the Mythology, Natural History, Antiquities, were too sweet boys of four and six, who occur in some of the houses in the capital, motor cannot read how thon shall the son and Social Manners and Customs, etc, btc., seemed to be mach indulged by their father. but that it represents rot unfairly the be taught? It is conceivable that among of Claita, Japan, Mongolia, Tibet, and the I. inquired after their mother, and she was position of women in nine-tenths of the re more demacrained people the enacimont Far East generally. Recently a ner de- After some littlo tione she came, presentative. Iceland houses, I know not would have led to prostitution. I have parture has been taken, and tho Review now set for

navar heard of anything of the kind in fooking as if she had just baon removing only from observation, but on the neuranos from her sonely face the traces of the work of several Icelanders who have travelled in Iceland, though I learned enough to malise of the kitabon. This is my wife, said the England and become conscious of the very that there never was a much bigger blun husband, and that was all our introduction. different esteem in which women are held der than that of Byron when lo extolled the northera nationa for particular chastity. He did not rise, and she did not sit. Ha among ourselves.

It may be that in some Iceland homes

A story came my way that may illustrate with his youngest non on ta knee and hats

The Review department receives special long pipe in his mouth. She stood literally there is fully as much touder duferonse paid the position of woman in the nostaerious of all

I begin by frankly attention, and endeavours are made to in the open doorway, or not half a pase in to women as ever choored and swastaned possible relations of life. side the room. He resumed the converts the homaliest homes in England. I can stating that I do not know the fueland law prenost a careful and concise record of lion that had been interrupted by het en only say that Iaw nothing of it, and heard of marriage or divorca, and may have fallon Literature on China etc., and to give trance. Sho undarstood English and could nothing of it. It seemed to me that it into some errore as to the basis of legal ortiques urbodiging skotclics of the Most speak it a little, but said nothing baraight bo possible to live a year in a good injustico upon which the story rests. Some cocant works on such topics. Authors and sond (wo or three words that I took Iceland hotes without seeing much of its of the persons concerned in it were known Publishers are requested to forward works to me, and I was on the acne of it for nomoto Editor, China Review, care of China Httle while. On the Fastern coast of Iceland Mail Office. there is a great ford called Sordistiord whore the Danish mail-boats and the Scotch cattle beats put in for cargoce of horses and sheap from the interior. Noar to Seydisford there lived a man whom I shall call Gris BOD. Ho rad a farmer of middle age, a hand, selfish, cruel-hearted fellow. But he was rich CB Buch men go, and it came about that the sole trouble of his life was the cir cumstance that he had no one that he could any of the Modern Languages are ro leave his land and money to when his time colved. The paperrara contributed by the to go mader the grass. So just that members of the various Consular, the Im

perial Customs, and Hongkong Services, might have heir ha resolved

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to marry. Thoro are not many people near Seydisford, and also by the Missionary bodies amongst and there are few women to choose from, whom a ligh degree of Chinese scholarship but he lit on a maid-sorant of somebody's, is assiduously cultivated. Amongst the named Halda, and married her, as I under.rogular contributors are Drs. Chalmers, stand it, and took her to his home. It many Eitel, Bretschneider, and Hirth, Professor be that without other ceromony he took her Legge, and exers Balfour. Watters. Stant as Jacob took.

cannot

not say, with Phillips, MacIntyre, Groat, Jamieson, certainty. In due course she bure a child Faber, Kopsch, Parker, Playfair, Giles, to him, and suckted it, and then at the end Piton, and Taylor, all well-known names, of three years from the day that he received indicative of sound scholarship and thorough her into his house ho bundled her out of it. mastery of their subject. He kopt the child, and told her to shift for herself:

SHARE LIST-QUOTATIONS.

Hongkong, Saturday Noon, 11th January, 1890.

It'

Chipital

No. of rabie ;

Shire,

Rose129 Find,

POSITION PER LAST REFORT.

At credit of working afc. ur Bai, Ben't food.

DIVIDEND

Amount.

When paid.

7,000,000 60,000

125 all 4,400,000 $

· 90 for 3 year to 300/3

Kahure

2,802,000 10,000 2,000,000 21,000 7,000,000 5,000 1

200,000 5,000 € 1,700,50 4,500 2,500,000 10,000 3

1885,000,000 30,000$

118658

1865 $ 2,000,00 -5,000 1870 - 2,090,000 20,00 1980 2,000,000 20,000$

1884 $ 4,000,000 10,000

The Iceland people are the poorest that I have any knowledge of, but diey are also in one respect the prowleat. They do not mind getting money by means that are extreme, if not actually fair, but they will accept nothing i charity, Shurty after landing at toykjavik, I had ex- perience both of Iceland shrewdness and Iceland

pride. We were to make a journay to Krusivik to are the sulphur nives, and

вре had sent one of Zoega's men to catch a dozen ponies, where they were grasing on the moors outside the little capital. The Icelander is a leisurely creature, and the work accupied several hours. During this time we walked over the town, and then reated in the Hotel faland. There had been no touting at the jetty, and none in the streets, but round the hotel doors there stood a little group of people with various articles for sale. One woman sold the Ice land woman's house cap, the hufa, a sort of flattened for with a longer tassel; auther Steam Taal: Company, Ld... 1888:8 sold foeland shoes, a sort of akiu slipper and yet another sold filigree jewellery of Iceland manufacture The prices sensed high, but we paid them, and pocketed treasures, and some of the old folk whose stock had been entirely sold out skipped

Docks and Wharves. kong & Wang Dock Co., Ld. 1885 $1,562,0 12,500 Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf

1880 1,000,000 20,000 8. -

like delighted children. One young away Icelander showed me two large silver coins, and asked forty kronor for them. As sliver they were not worth half as much, and so I hesitated, though I wished to possess them. My firat impulse was to offer thirty kroner, but I did not like to cheapen the coins lest the young follow should think that I believed

to take advantage of Inc. Very colustantly I said No, aut turned my back

& Oudown Co., Limited

Shipping, Hongkong, Canton & Macau)

1564' Steam-boat Co., Limited Indo-China Steamu Navigation 1882

Co., Liraited

1888

Douglas Samskip C.,

Chion & Manila S. S. Co., L. 18's

Refineries....

Ami base

1,600,000 80,000 £1,200,000 60,000 € 1,000,000 20,000 8

175,000 2,500S 100,000 2,006 S

1,500,000 15,000

100,000 7,000s

CAST QUOTATIONS. (For Time Bargaine sce memo, at foot).

DURING CURRENT FEKK. Closing.

Highest. Lowest.

70,307.82cx-003 per Aug. 26, 80107 % prem., 200% prem. 195% prem.

28% $1 per sh. for 1888

385,220 732,400 estimated to 30 Jane 88

231,343.919gor rent. 85p, sh. for

prar ending 30/4/855

650,000 $

175,5.2.80|||

10 per sent for 1689) Tls, 78.92 and $26.97

à per cunt. for 12 m.)

3,089.05 x 84/1985-Ti

14,19 mil $5.71

to]]]

3 per cent, for 15,266,84 61/12/8 in all per

cent. for 18 (S03,203.86)|

estimated to 14 p.e. fur 1838, 10 p.

acut, int, dry. 1999 30 Sept. 89

250,5 25 89.98 253

200£ 5 s.320,000.00 Tb. 2 all s.175,913.31. 1,000 200,$ 25,711.60$

236 $ 508. 417,000

100s 208 115,000

2508 50$ 1,031,486$

1008 209 650,000 8

100 $

206 13,000

100 208 11,72.918

128) all

buyers

Oct. 11, 90 $103, Dalce

Sept. 10, 89$73, buyere 874

April 27, 59 Tla, 340

Jan. 18, 89 Tls. Yũ

April 3, 88130, moto

Jan. 2, 90$125, ex div.,

to 31 Dec. 1888

(13,000 (10% for 1883, 5)

int. div. 1889,

AL

April 1, 89829, walca

paid 1/10/80

320,787.98

$10.0p eb for year Feb. 26, 88 $400, buyers 105

ending a1 Do, JEST Ì

(38 p.sh. to /o Fr. 55) 229,143.29 ford div, fur #Feb. 25, 80/800

84,215.25

1-25 per cent. per year I j (10 p. c. for 1961, p. fer 1888. dir, to a 1988.

230,125.08 (63%, for yr.end-

at 31/12/86iug 31 Dec, 1887

8 106,778.245 c. for 9m.coding'}

30/3/09

(2 pr. cont. int. div, und

Mar. 2, 89318, sulus

April 21, 80 810, nom.

Aug. 27, 8963 % pm., nom,

2,756.25 old Cap of $1,700,000 { [July 21, 68|$106, sellers

6,451.28 Papital of 500,000 for Aug. 6, 127, sollers 843

12,100.07 10% int. div. for Aug, 20, 69 $223, buyer 8227

$300

$123

1

all

for 6m, md: 300,

(7 po' soul, div, and gy

20:

(18,50,000) (+)$800,000

per cont, bosas on old f

Cri, ending 10:1/a

851.01

1,006.14.9

ing 31 Dec. 1888)

63% for yr end-June 19, 3915 % dis,

06

00 all

3

8 281,015.259

45,000 9

1,750,4

$% for 1.

ing 30June 1889

Sept. 23, 89 565, nem.

buyers

3,041.37

for yr. endings1/12/86

130 per cont. Stop whi

Mar. 25, 898118, bayers $125

$118

Dr. S

90.86

July 30, 89 par, buyers

10% atl

6m. and, 30/6/89 f

100 all

Dr. $18,160,46

10$

503 1,250,000

609 30

10

識

50,000)

1597

125,000 1,250 $

100 all

214.55

10 11

5 all

Selama Tin Mining Com

$570,000 115000/s

pany. Limited,

18 125,000 25,000 $

Punjon & Sunghie Das

mantan Mining Co., Lt.

10 all

China Sugar Refluing Co., Lt. 1878 Luzon Sugar Refining Co., Ld. 1842 $

Lande and Trusta. Hunglong Land Investment &)

1689$ Agency Company, Id... f Kowloon Land and Buildios (1880 $

Company, Ed. Trust & Lon Co. of China &e, 1889,

Tramway 8. Hongkong High-Level Tram ways Company, Limited Mining.

on the Teelander. Then I heard this (thellamondi Ming Co. L2, 1859 $ convamation betweenhim and the supercargo) Jelebu Miring & Trad. Co., L3, 18693

of the ship in which we had aniled

* How much did you say, Sigfus 7 *

Forty kroner.

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I'll give you treaty.'

No, that will do.'

Very

Theranpon I turned about and caught the eye of the Iculator, but there was nothing in his face to betray shame at his attempt to cheat w

5,000,000 30,000,$

300,000 6,000 $ 1,000,000 10:000 £

100,000 15,000s-

225,000 45,000ls

1889

1890's 000,000 co,000!

Société Francaise des Chur-1868 Fes. 4,000,000 8,004jEas. 6003.80 por

bonnages du Toukin.....

(e) Turis Mines, Limited

Planting, &c.

། ་

$1.5042 73

Dr.

to 199

-578,767.73

$101.68

1889 E 175,000 176000

ML=

$5.90

200,000 4,090,$ 250,000 3,00s 750,000 7,500S 250,000 5,000'S 100,000 4,000$ 300.00 6,000's 60 MIL

60$ 800,100 8,0008

25$

501

1008

508 201 8

40

to 3C'

10%

50

23

100 all

2,858.46

East Bernee Planting Co., Ld. 118885 (Songei Xorah PlantingCo., Ld. $88,5 Chia-Bornes Company, Limited196 (o) bak Plauting Co., Limited 559 8

Darrel Bay Trading Co., Ld. 1889 (b). G. Brown & Co., Limited 1889 S

The Lamsg Planting Co., Ll. 1889

Hotels, Building, de Hongkong iletel Co., Tiritual. 18609

Shortly after this the ponies were brought dowa from the moor, our guide we engaged, and our party made ready to sal out. The

shaggy,

Peaky little hores bong drawn up like a fi ok of sheep in the yard at the back of the hotel, and there, too, a great crowd of women, children, and idle fellows had congregated to see us starf, I had

into the saddle, and was waiting got for my friends, when ati old woman pushed her way through to the horas's head and held out a pair of gray woollen gloves, Sho could not speak English, and I could not Barnes Hotel & Stores Co., Ld. speak Icelandic, but I saw that she was Peak Hotel Trading Co., Lt. 1559S offering the gloves for sale. I did not need at Point Building Cu.. Jd... 18895 them, and no I pulled out of a side pocket a Shameen Hotel & Land Co., L. 1980S pait of thick fur-lined gloves to show her Richmond Terraer, Estate and į!, Building Company, Ld. JY that I was already provided. She under- atood, and seemed disappointed. I looked

Dispensaries. at the poor soul, and saw that she was very

Austin Arms otok & Building 18898

Company, Limited ...

poor. She had a torn hufa on her hend, A. S. Watson & Co., Limited. 1880's

torn skin shoes on her feet, and a ragged woollen dress that scarcely covered her. Cruickshank & Co., Limited Rheumatism seemed to play sad havoo with her limbs, for she could scarcely walk to get out from among the feet of the ponies. I Lovku silver coin sad offered it to her, as quietly as I coull but she drew herself back with dignity,

Lighting. Hongkong & Chion fold isauri, Gas Co., Limited } new i Hongkong Electric Co., Limited 1880'S

300,000 3,000 $

509 23 50'$ 30

I

1111111

1 | | 1 1 1 1

$223

1872, zelors

$74

$58

$100, buyers $108

$102

$16, nom. nouzidal

8200, nom.

811, buyers

Sot, sellers

$4, buyers $7, nom.

$92, sellers

$175, nom.

1$7, nom.

810, nom.

$40, noin

815, nem.

$20, nom.

ipar, nom,

85s, nom.

835, nom.

14% for 0. ende

ing 30/6/80 Aug. 30, 80210, now,

15 per cent. per and.

-dni, endiay MOVED

-

1

TELF

$22

($10

FL

TURIM

% dix., rom.

$32, nom,

$20, cash

$47, Alex

$19

$47

F

4,200,742 per cent. for 1968 on!

old capital of $13.000 April 14, 808200

1,981:63 / Int: div. 7% to Nov. 5, 802, sellers

nju 1859

5% for Go. cad- Oct. 1, 99$45, ellers

Tog 31/8/69

(10 per ont for year

Ide 7.10 10,848.7.7£ 1,711.19.11 ending 31/1263, 2per Apr. 17, 80$130, nom.

ecat, bez us for dus

300,000 4,00. § 50,000 10008 200,00 1,000 2 625,00 12,50els 100,000 5,000's 140,000 1,000$

608

201 508 4 200 10

10 all

1886-2

1804

500,000, 51,000/$

80,000 1,0005

50,004; 5.100 £ 20,000 1,500E 300,0.030, S

1 all

50 all

$140,000

*10,000 3

+ 5,000)

108

6

1989.8

41 came to sell, not to

to beg. Nover in my

1899€

150,00 6,000s 150,000 0,000 $

20 all

28,3

life

I dare say I-shall be laughed at when I wa

had I felt more completely humili

kociliated. Hongkong Brial and Cement

Brick and Cement.

Company, Limited....

19505

helpless ignorance. I raised my hat.

888

Limited,

100,000 1,000 $ 1,000,0.0)

23$ 17.5

Dr.

$27,514.149)

for end. 91/1080)

5013 10,000 8 10,0008 50$

B0

40

1881

46,000 8

12,000 $

55,272.d for year to f0/11,80 (Dr. 8 390.260% int. dir.

Iron Foundries...

lanked grave, shook her head, stiffered heren. Fenwick & Co., Limited Jips, and walked away as one would say, A., Gordan & Co., Limited,

-ལོ་

that I did all that I could do in my Green Island Coment Company

Lliscellaneous. Hongkong Ice Co., limited...

Thus, before I had been three hours in

T Iceland I had stumbled upon two leading traits of commen Icelandio character. Our guide that day, and the next, was geot Thong & China Bakery Co., Ld. 18728 simpla, lanky creature named Jonas Joning- son. Ho spoke English very fairly, Fronch 11. Rope Manufactory Co., LA. 15838 as well, and Danish I duro say a good deal Dairy Farm Co., Limited..... 18869 belter. I rode beside him many miles of Campbell, Mauro & Co., Limited 1886 the journey, and we wore often alival of Marin Furaiture Co., Ld. 1859$ the rest of the party, and had half ou horses in front of us, for we had taken at least two horses for each person.

125,000 5,000$. 23 all 50,000 ECOS or all 150,000 3,000$ 60 all 100,000 10,000$10 a

12,000 1,2005 70,00 13,000's. 208

5!

│

Int. div. 5%

$81, cash.

July 18, $0 $25, buyers.

Ent. div. offi p.sh. for sm.jJuly 31, 89$20, nim.

$18, sellers

$40, nom.

240, nom,

Aug. 2, 808109

(20 pr. et. for 1683 and 366.56 pr. o ist for em.

calling 30/8/20 134 p. pl. for year ende

Feb. 26, 89880, now, 164.16

112 3 5 per Mar. 27, 88109, nom 5,718.70) Paare er 1858

$12 Aug. 1, 89811, nom,

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The Notes and Queries are still continued and form an important means of obtaining from and difheing among students new Lodge on obscure points.

Tho Correspondents' column also affords farther and greator facilities for the inter- change of viove and discussion of various topics.

Original contributions in Ohiosa, Latio,

170

The Subscription is fixed at $6.50 per nuni, pestage included payable in ad- I I was assured that the law of Teo-vance. land

ined the gan thus to divoren

Ordera for binding volumes will be tho

Addiess, * Mopa who stead to him in the relation a promptly attended to wife without word or wink from any legal ger, Chum Mail Office. functionary. It seems incredible, but my authority was a sot saptain who had sailed. twenty years to Toulund, and melto know every man, woman, and child at every

I should port of call,

that Helda was Aay not the man's married wife at all, and that in turving her adrift the worthy Grimmen was but abandoning his mistress.

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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

All our learned sociction should sub- sering to this scholarly and enterprising Re- new."—Northern Christian Advocate (U.S.)

bellent table of contents.—Celestial Empire.

The Publication always contains subjecta of interest tu sojournera in the Far East and the present inne will hold favourable if not advantageous comparison, with preceding numbers. Celestial Engine

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Poor Hulda was in despair, but not so mugh for her necessities, which were great, na because she was cut off from all inter course with her child. Again and again she crept up to the house to sou the little ono, This number contains several articles and kiss and fondle it, and again and again of interest and value, North China Herald. she was caught and driven away. She did The Chino Review for September-October work; she became sin uutcast she fully maintains the high standard of Boomed to be going mad; but her busband excellongs which characterises that publi did not relent. These were the days when ation, and altogether forma Very Americs was holding out her hand to intorcating and readable number. Me- Iceland, and asking all Icelanders who teorologists will find 2.11 interesting and gould not live on their cruel rock of the valuable contribution by Dr. Fritsche, Trocad on of the and Sow) of Poling showing the results Iceland on the shores of the Facile. Aud and Snow) of Peking." the ship that way friend the captain sailed of observations made at the Itaperial Rus lag at the time off the jetty at Sey-sian Obscrvatory at Peking, from 1841 to disfiord.

1880. Notos on the Dutch Occupation One day

Holds watched her opportunity, Formoea," by Mr. Geo. Phillipa, contains crupt up to her former home, stalo her own some interesting information, though

Native baby, hastoned down to the fore, wont much of i is second-hand, aboard the ship amid the crowd of a hun-New Books include a most generous and

intiva ju some appreciative rev

review of "The Divine Classic

dred emigrants, and stored away in due j

dark

corner

and

below deoss. Tha

time weighed her anchor and steazed down of Non-Hus," and the Notos and Queries aro as usual very interesting. '--North-China tewards the son. Then there was a bue Laily Nerta

ery, and an Iesland boat paine sourry- A substantial and reliable Review which ing after hor. Grimason was in it with the all students of China and the Chinese would Sacriff and half-a-dozen other men. The do woll to patronies.Chrysanthemum.`` steamer slackened off for them, they came The November-December number of aboard, and the captain asked what they the China Rerious contalus less variety than wanted.

There's a woman on your ship who bas stolen a child;' said the Shariff

Whose child 1 said the captolo. 'Mine," anid Grimsson.

but the few actiolos are very interes ting. The opening paper by his Herbert Qiles on Tho Now Testament in Chi- thou that must necons a question nese" treats of Earily be of great importance in the yea We'd have her up,' said the captain. of all missionarios."

Mr E HI in Szachven Every woman aboard who had a child Parker's "Short Journeys in with her was then brought on deck, and among them was Halda. Crimson singled those travels in the intanor of Chil her out, sed then began the inquiry.

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are continued, and a goodly instalment of

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given. Mr F. H. Balfour contributes a

· That's

stolen it."

poror Cheng, founder of the Chinese Em The captola asked the woman if that was pirs," which will be read with of Chinese but true,

Helda could not speak or under interest by students stand a word of English. The captain on few short notices of Now Books A

she has at sild," said Grimason, and paper of some length entitled "The Em-

placed

A

and

his part could not speak or understand animber of Notes and Queries, one of which word of Icelandic. Go things apemed to geOn Chinese Oaths in Western, Fornes hard with Helda. But she knew what was and Java" might

have beon under going on before her, and clong closer to tho

soparate

completa child and shed tours. At that the captain the: number.K. Daily began to suspect, and turning to Grinsson Trutner's Oriental Record contains the he said

following notice of the China Resiese Wisere is the child's mother?

The present publication, judging by the

cd

Grlieskom nada no answer, and then fun number now before us, is tulended to

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Ierlander who stood by rupcated the ques occupy a position, as regards China and the tion to Hells in Icelandic, and she answer neighbouring countries, some what similar hur own tongue, I am his mother to that which has boas filled in India by the It is Iron I took him, but he is my own Calcutta Review. The great degies of at- child.

tention that has been bestowed of late years When this was translated to the captain, apon the intestigation of Chinese literature, he asked if it was true, and the sheriff had antiquities, and social developments, to kay of linguistic studies, has led to the to admit that it was to but Grinsson nothing protested that by the last of his country the accumulation of important stores of inform father, not the mother, was the guardians of ation, rendering zone such channel of

pub the child, and as the fathor of this child, he Licity as in now provided extremely desir demanded it

able;

le; and contributions of much interest

in great

It's the law of Iceland, cried Grinsson, may fairly be looked or from the members ereas wrath.

of the Foreign consular services, tüù Uhluces

But

the

ed.

captain' blood was hailing by Customs corps, and the missionary body, Chineno

this time. Like a true, illogicst, pig-head-amour son a high degree of China

right-hearted British tar, he said- scholarship is now assiduouly cult The lasy of Iceland be! The and who are severally represented in the first woman is under the British Big row, and number of the Review by

by papers highly ate stall stick to her child, and just you creditable to their respectivo authors get off my ship, the lot of you, ur, Somo translations from Chinese I throw you into the senLondon Figarn.

note of style; and an account of the career of the Chinese poetstatoman of the eleventh Si famento HE MS. E. O.. Bowra, century, Sung-po

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Aniount of Loant.

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Tiate of Interest.

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