To the Editor of the Dear Si,—When I try to prove in my following report, that the above-named establishment has not been unsuccessful, and that the money and labour kindly contributed by foreigners and natives ab Chefoo has been invested in an undertaking which is at least promising, I sincerely hope that it meets with the sympathy of your readers, so that similar institutions may be erected at many other ports, and further help may not be refused to those already established.
Before we opened the room on the 29th of August of last year, we published an address to the gentry of Chefoo, which rans in its translation as follows literature ature, but through all that ti of Western nations has not be an and it is only since opportunity to deve foreign lit Natural History, Arithmetic, ud 00 fort, by making books on Astronomy, Geography,
which were At th College in Peking, schools for hai, Foochow, and C: saple, whi I unacquainted with politics, instruction, and national charac! They only know the benefit of foreign m chaitical invention ting that foroignera derived their i poms, only from their profound and that knowledge is the basis ly of foreign Tatelligent Chinese, students, although anxious to be instructed in foreign literature, as do vot see their way ho it, however, some Euroy officials, together with their Excelleuci the Viceroy of Obibli Li chang, the Taotais of Shanghai, i and alto some other gentry and merch agreed to raise eubsoriptions and to establish 8 Polytechnic Institution and Reading Room in Shanghai with a view of buying seintige books of all nations to be translate plained by foreign teachers, thus facil progress in the study of the native liter with the conviction that in this way the Chinese mechanical arts would soon bear Following the example shown to jansen with those of Western count
Shanghai (and later in Amoy), we of opinion that a Reading Room should be j established in Chefoo, this wel situated a port, a place long renowned for literati and where there are many scholars living, Accordingly (the fands and suggestions how to begin, having been contributed by native and foreigners alike) we purpose fo open a Room, where will be provided for general uso all the books that have been translated from foreign Iauguages on Astronomy, Geography,
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