Tue Asiatic Society's Journal comes before us this year inthe shape of a well printed and readable volume of 260 pages. The articles of course are of various merit, but still they all have attractions for the student interested in China and the Chinese, and bear comparison with the papers supplied to scientific journals at home. When we see the names of Messrs. Mayers and Swinhoe as contributors, we are sure that some new light will be thrown on the
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.