The "Words about Yok-Fei" is a book which tells its own tale. As the biography of one of the greatest men in Chinese history, it should, though told by a novelist, excite some interest. The true, but legend and the novi i are freely used. Mr. Mayers allows, in his Chinese Reader's Manual, Yok Fei's military skill and knowledge and his inflexible opposition to the policy of making peace with the Kin barbarians. Equally noble and heroic are his loyalty to his king and his
end. country, and his tragic and memorable 'A word as tothe translation. It does not profess to be a word for word rendering of the Chinese; in many places a brief abstract and a few lines will give the contents of a chapter. Where, however, the matter is thought likely to be interesting, the translation will be nearly exact. Such as it is, it is now offered to the consideration of the readers of the W.-C. Herald,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.