tion of the Peting Gazette for 1875, reprinted We have received a copy of the Transla-from the North-China Herald, and published at the office of that paper, Shanghai. This several years, in always useful For reference, work, which has now been published for
being an excellent compendium of Chin official proceedings, but the present volume is especially valuable, because it contains 20 auch matter of unusual interest. The whole eries of edicts in connection with the death of the Emperor Tung-chi and his Imperial Consort, together with the appointment of the Empresses Dowager as Regents during the minority of the present Emperor appeared during the year, and will well repay throwing light on manner of the' Chinese Court. During the past year, too, the presence of. foreigners in hina has been, for the first time, noticed officially in the Gazette. One of the conditions exacted by Sir Thomas Wade, during the late negotiations on the Yunnan Outrage was that the leading features of those negetiations should. be published, and the real Fecognined, Tie. appointment of Li one of foreigners in the count
chang. as. High. Commissioner.to. investigate She crime; his first report after arriving at Yannan-fa; with certain edicta'on the treaty vileges of foreigners, and placing on isters with the heads of the Chief Depart:
ter footing the relations of Foreign Min-
ments of State at Peking are to be found in the pages of this handy little book. Its value is still further enhanced this year by an apdix in which is given a genealogical table of the Chinese Imperial family, together with an interesting commentary upon it, explana atory of the rather intricate relationships and the rules of adoption and succession observed. These volumes are records of important events—the one for the present year more particularly so—and should find a place on the book shelves of every one who takes an interest in Chinese questions. The volume for 1875 is uniform with the rest of the series, in legibly printed on good paper, and neatly got up.—Daily Press.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.