A native stranger arriving in Shanghai with a fow days to spare, will naturally wish to seo something of the foreign "lions" about which he ard ao much. At any rata o intelligent native, who has lived here fifteen youre, thinks so; and "trests he has supplied a want" by the publication of a nent Chinese Guide. book in four small oetnvo volumes, The work opens with three well-executed maps of the French, British and American Settlements, followed by facsimiles of the various national Hiya. Then come short chapters all kinds of subjects likely to attract the visitor's including the drainage, ligh and watering of the stroots, the police, gus, electricity, the race-course, jinrickshas, bicycles, fluwershows, bongs, photography, barristers, butlers, tea-shops, theatres, vaccination, ism, which latter the writer quaintly describes as "an earth. quake for a thousand people," and cites in proof of the theory that "the man race is all made out of the kamo stuff." In Volame III, most of the above topics, and many others, are further treated—poelically!—in strict accordance with Chinese views as to the natare of a guide-book, though some. what trying to the gravity of foreign readers. For instance—
Ode to the Municipal Council, Ode to the 12 o'clock yun, Ode to the foreign buy." Ode to an auction.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.