'6 aod 7, Oct. and Nor, 1675, Saaoghai! 3.3. W, Bucaham. as Mr. and Mrs. A. E, Moule, Mrs. Grif with John, Drs. Baldwin and Blodget, are at once a guarantee for the quality of matter and success of the enterprise, Efforts to train and educate the young are among the most hopeful and encouraging. Mr, Farnham has shrewdly given share of his time and energies to this useful work. His manual labor school at the South Gate base record of fifteen years, and can no longer be considered an experiment, puta decided success, of which this little magazine is only the natural—almost necessary out-growth. The publisher hoped a thousand copies would be wanted before.the end of the first year, but he had not anticipated the words of encouragement and numerous subscriptions that came at once from every quarter. Several parties took each one hundred copies. and one gentleman made a generous contribution to help on the enterprise. Before six months had passed, more than 2,000 copies were subscribed for, and, including sales on the street and in' the native book stores, nearly 2,500 capi circulated each month, shows conclusively that it is supplying a widely felt want.
The two numbers before us contain each a piece of music and fifteen short articles, upon a variety of subjects, including several branches of science. We take at random as a specimen of the subjects:—The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter" (by Mra.
.E. Moule), "The Little Captive," "Duped by the for Writing,"
with map (by Dr. Kerr), The Kangaroo," &e., &e.
importance of such Magazines lies not in the amusements they furnish alone they are replete with such instruction as the Chinese most need at this juncture Not to speak of the moral teaching, almost every branch of science is touched upon, and the first principles so far unfolded as to show the Chinaman his ignorance, and possibly beget a thirst for knowledge, Indeed, while addressed to the children, it seems remarkably adapted to the adults, who are only children of a larger growth, In securing illustrations for his magazine, Mr. Farnham has had serious obstacles to contend with, At firat he was confined to such engravings as were at hand, most of them having teen used many times, that they would come to his reade old familiar faces. be made to suit the picture, to say nothing of the unsuitableness of pictures with foreign costume, &o., to illustrate a maga zine for the Chinese." While the best part of his matter—that having a local terest—must go forth without illustration, Lithographing and native artists, with various styles of engraving were all tried, without nieoting the requirements, Wood engraving was the desideratum, but no one could be found, either able to execute it or teach others, We are surprised at this,
get wood-cuts very fairly executed. How-we have, generally found it possible to ever, Mr. Farnham had learned something of the art, and his notes were precious, While waiting for a set of engraver's tools from London, some rude and imperfect ones were substituted; and some specimens which have been shown us of engravings lately done by Mr. Farnham's pupils, after very brief instruction, do them great credit.
The imperfections in native sketches, pecially in the matter of perspective, were 1a degree remedied by his pupils i in draw-. ing, and the work commenced. Sketches were made to illustrate the salient, points in the articles, thus greatly increasing the power of the Magazine to interest and instruct. Of the twenty-three engravings in these two numbers, seventeen are original, and; considering the publisher's obstacles, we must say' very commendable. The large list of contributors on the cover shows he has here, as elsewhere, been favored by the same-good fortune. Such names Ontports,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.