H.-P. Beach, the author of the opening 'All spring shall. give thee fragrance, and the wheat article, has invented a system' of his own, Shall bea golden floorcloth to thy feet.
Haste, for our hearts are with no Prayer as written by his system. and gives us his alphabet and the Lord' ith thee—take of the female lot; for the man who carries out its precepts will when old become young, and the woman will become a man, One Hia Yung-siang, who, published a Three Character Classic in 1868, asserts that he has been in the habit of visiting the unseen. world, which is under the same government as this world, and where the rewards and punishments that are incomplete here are perfected. 'The same author has written a work called True Words to Exhort the Age, in which moral earnestness is strongly' inculcated. He informs his readers that there has been a hell from. the time of the Emperor Tan, when it, first became necessary. Dr. Edkins gives an account at some length of book called Search into the Principles of the Three Books of Changes, which is the text-book of the Golden Elixir sect. The author, he saya, is a well-read scholar, who has studied old books very thoroughly, and the opposition to the book and the sect springs from political motives, but the evidence of revolutionary designs in them appears to be well concealed. Another interesting book is a collection of sixteen tracts on the sin of destroying life. While vegetarianism i kind, not all sheep, goat not being protected. It is the animals which dustry, gentleness, hal piety lat are not to be eaten, sud as cows, dogs, eels, pigeons and crabs. Dr. Baking' Concluding Reflections on the the books he has mentioned are remarkably scanty. They comprise a short: account of the system of divination known as the oracle of the phasnix, which, with the sects that practise it, is forbidden by law, and the statement that yet in these books is touch in favour of loyalty and no, word against the government."
Mr. Clu Bose concludes his notice of Soochow with a bird's eye view, which accompanied by a very clear and useful n_of the city, showing the. principal buildings. There is of course a chapter on opium, which begins with the _statement—for which we should like to know the authority—that fifty years ago there were four or five opium smokers in the city, whereas now there are probably fifty thousand. Presuming this to' be true, the casual reader would naturally ask how this rest.
Kay, in the second article; approves Dr. Clear voiced ambassador from sea'to ses, Proclai the blessing manifold, confessed, Orawford's alphabet, and suggests certain i ese systems wyements. " Onlya trial of 'OF those in darkness, by her hatid set free. with Chinese can shew whether they'have Then very softly to'her Presence move, any practical value; for ourselves, we are And whisper—' Lady!1o, they know and and that labour would be sayed in the en inclined to think that they are only by using the roman alphabet at once. That, at any. rate,.is universal, while it seems likely that there will be as Tur: first volume of this admirable work many. phonetic. systems. as there are was Feviewed'at length inthe North-China Churches - working -in the country, The Daily News last year, and consequently it Rev. A. Sydenstrickér defends his recent is difficult to-say much of: the second that remarks about southern mandarin.; hab' not: been said': before. We have: not 'The Chinese' Recorder and Missionary Bowsole: clu Langage Mandarin, by: Journal. Joly, 1888, "Shanghai, American increase of smoking is accounted for.
e answer is here; 'Brought' by Eng-Jand's ships, forced in by jlanid's goldiers, iegalised at the point of England's bayone' upheld by England's power, enriching gland's coffers, is opium." Does Mr.
Bose really believe this' bunedmbe? Is there 'a single' opium-smoker in' Soochow whovhas had the' drug forced him. at the point of England's bayonets? Mr. Clu Bose goes on to say that. "it is amazing that England, the bulwark of Protes-tautism and the acknowledged ledder in the by even the touch of this nefarious ate file," world's civilisation, should tarnish her glory and that were England to withdraw her protectorate over the vile drug and permit
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