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THE CHINA REVIEW.
rank, communicating with native Mandarius by means of "huge official onvelopes, duly stamped and sealed," and thus, by the im- plied threat of political difficulties with France or the Pope, protect unscrupulous native criminals. The number is well illus- trated, and contains two valuable sketeli maps of the districts surrounding Amoy and Swatow.
We regret to have to note in connection with this periodical the death of the Rev. Carstairs Douglas, M.A., L.D., who was one of its principal promoters. He died since the issue of this number, rather sud- denly, of cholera. Dr. Douglas arrived in China in 1855 and has ever since been fore- most among the able representatives of the Fresbyterian Church in Amoy. He was a first class scholar, as evidenced by his "Die- tionary of the Vernacular of Amoy; London, 1373," and his various contributions to the China Review, Missionary Recorder and other periodicals, but he was also an excel- lent practical worker, gifted with a large- uess of heart and keenness of foresight so widely recognized that he was unanimously chosen President of the late Missionary Conference, although he was one of the principal partizans of Shangti as against Shin or Tien-chu.
4 complete Atlas of the two hemispheres. Second, reaised and improved edition. Canton, 1877. This is a very ureditable product of native intelligenes and industry and a good speci- men of native blook-printing. We have here three skeets, the first giving the two hemispheres, designed each with a diameter of two feet, the frontiers of the different countries are suitably coloured, all the prin- cipal names of countries, mountains, rivers, seas, etc. printed in bold type and the avail- able space filled up with brief notes on the usual subjects generally treated as intro- ductory to geography. The accompanying two sheets give the most needful details concerning the political and topographical
geography of each country seriatim. For a future edition of this for native schools specially valuble publication, we would recommend Mr. Leung Chu-shan to overhaul his system of spelling foreign names so as to make it uniform, to be more liberal in accepting popular terms such as 新金山 for Australia or
for California, which have once become generally accepted and are indispensable in speaking, and finally to bring up his accounts of European countries to the date of publication, in- cluding, for instance, the political results of the late Franco-Prussian war. The author ought also to state where this second and improved edition of his Atlas is for sule in
Hongkong or Cauton. The only reference
we find is his private address, viz. 省沙基大街梁柱臣,Leung Chi-
shan, Sha-ki Street, Canton.
Chinese Studies at Oxford.-The Rev. Professor Dr. Legge, having in the course of last term given several lectures on Chinese Grammar, continued his course of Chinese instruction, during the term which is now ending, by treating in three consecutive public lectures the well known Sacred Edict. Next term the exhibition of these sixteen maxims will be complete by one lecture, the subsequent lectures being devoted to Gram-
mar.
We are pleased to learn that there are now a few students giving their atten- tion to Chinese studies. The lectures on the Sacred Ediet will be published in successive numbers of the Chino Review, as probably also the lectures on Grammar, Dr. Legge
is now in correspondence with the Foreign and Colonial Offices regarding his proposal to send the Candidates for the Consular Ser- vice in China and Japan, as also the Can- didates for the Civil Service in the Straits and in Hongkong, for a course of Chinese study, as unattached students of the University, to Oxford, in which case Dr. Legge will secure the assistance of a Peking- ese native teacher.
SHORT NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
Chinese Studies in America.--The chair for Chinese Language and Literature which is to be established at Yale College has been offered to Dr. S. Wells Williams, the author of the "Middle Kingdom" and of the two well-known Dictionaries for Cantonesc and Mandarin Dialects. There is also a project to introduce Chinese lectures at Harvard University, without however establishing a Professorial chair. Mr. Francis P. Knight, formerly of Shanghai, and Chinese Commis- sioner of the Philadelphia Exhibition, pro- posed to President Eliot to bring from China one or two native teachers, who, he thinks, with the help of Sir Thomas Wade's text books would teach a young man, in the course of two years, sufficient Chinese to enable him to take a position of some use- fulness upon arrival in China as a Consul or in connection with the Legation in Peking. A subseription has been opened by Mr. Knight to find the necessary funds, whilst President Eliot has promised the assistance of the Corporation in this undertaking.
COLLECTANEA BIBLIOGRAPHICA.
Chambers's Journal, Febr., 1877. A jour
ney in Turkestan. Leisure Ilour, March, 1877. Augustus Raymond Margary. The cup of gold, a Chinese story-June, 1877. Japa- nese (and Chinese) Music and musical instrumente.
London & China Express, July, 1877. A Chinese Dictionary in the Cantonese Dialeot.
Lappincott's Magazine, June, 1877. The
Chinese at Beaver Falls.
The Nation, May, 1877. A Chinese tea- chership at Harvard. The Folklore of China.
The Saturday Review, May, 26, 1877.
Marks on China,
The Nineteenth Century, July, 1877. A journey to China, and round the world, by Tho. Brassey, M.P. Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record, Nos. 125 and 126, 1877. Trans- lation of the Peking Gazette. China and her Apologist. Catalogue of the Jesuit Missionaries in China.
The Hongkong Government Gazetie, No. 36, 11 Ang., 1877. Civil Service Ex- aminations, Hongkong.
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The Friend of China, June, 1877. Our
Chinese critics.
North-China Daily News, July, 1877. Mr. Giles' Records of the Buddhistic Kingdoms.-July 21, 1877. A Chinese Professorship at Oxford.-Aug. 2, 1877. Epitome of ancient history of Japan. The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, May-June, 1877. Rise and Progress of the Maujows.
The Celestial Empire, Vol. VIII, No. 26. Philological diversions. From Swatow to Canton. Dr. Legge and the Con- ference. The Son of Heaven.-Vol. IX,, No. 1. The Logus of the Chinese. Bits of Chinese Travel. Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms.--No. 2. Bits of Chinese Travel. A Mandarin Primer. List of the high provincial anthorities of China.-No. 3. Bits of Chinese Travel. A Chinese view of the Cuban question. No. 4. Bits of Chinese Tra→ vel. The China Review.-No. 5. The departure of Mr. Wylie. Bits of Chinese Travel. No. 6. Bits of Chinese Travel. Magazin für die Literatur des Auslandes. 46 Jahrg. No. 20. Literarisches über China and Japan.
Das Ausland, No. 18 Corea.
Europa. Redig, von H. Kleinstouber.
No. 19. Der Theestrauch. Die Grenzboten. Redig. von H. Bluhm,
No. 20. Der wahre Konfutse.
The following are the latest publicatione on Chinese subjects:-
A visit to Japan, China and India, by
R. N. Fowler, M.A. London, 1877. China, No. 2, 1877. Report by Mr. Davenport upon the trading capabilities of the country traversed by the Yunnan mission. (Blue Book.)
Treaties referring to trade between Great Britain and China, by Edward Herstlet, Librarian to the Foreign Office. Lon- don, 1877.
The Diseases of China, By John Dud-
geon, M.D. Glasgow, 1877. Le Catholicisme en Uhine. Par P. Darby
de Thiersant. Paris, 1877. China, Erlebnisse eigener Reisen und darauf gegründete Studien. Von Fer- dinand von Richthofen. Erster Band. Einleitender Theil. Mit XXIX. Hole- schnitten und XI. Karten. Berlin, 1877.
Eine Staatslehre auf ethischer Grundlage oder Lehrbegriff des chinesischen Phi- losophen Mencius. Von E. Faber. Elberfeld, 1877.
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