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Wohave to acknowledge the receipt of The translations from the Peking Gazette for 1877," published of the office of the VC: Herat who volume before us is got up in the cus. tomary form and bound in Imperial yellow. It contains the usual useful index, and isa most valuable little work for reference. The records of the past year are unusually interesting, many of the memorials and edicts being of the highest importance and some of a novel character, including the famine in the northera provinces of China, the campaign in Central Asia, the'memorial of Kwoh Sung-tao on the opium question, and the decree in response, &c. These translations throw a great deal of light upon the working of the Chinese official stem, and. are of great use to students of ibinese life and character.—Daily Press.
30th March, 1878.
12, Hankow Road.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.