The. Ogre's Arm: told in English by
Tokio. - Shanghai Mrs. T. H. James, Kobunsha, Publishers, addi Kelly and Walsh, Limited.
This is one of those charming little books, got up in Japanese fashion and tied with silk, with which the Kobunsha at Tokio has been delighting lovers of stories of all ages, The tale of The Ogre's Arm is not us complete as many of these stories are, for it does not end with the assurance that the good people lived happily ever after;-iv fact, the hero, though he succeeds in cutting off the arm of the terrible re Shutendoji, allows himself to be outwitted afterwards by the ogre, who appears to him as his old aunt from the country. Perhaps there is a subtle intent in telling us only so much of Tsuna's adventures, that.we may be the more anxious to read cly-and-by, if Mrs, James has a sequel to translate, how the determination was carried out' that was made, when ' Raiko called his followers round him, and they there and then solemnly vowed that they would one day destroy the ogres in their stronghold of Oyeyama, or perish in the attempt," There is an excellent. moral conveyed unobtrusively in this little tale, and the illustrations to it are full of spi and excellently drawn and coloured, Records of the General Conference of the Protestant Missionaries of China; held at Shanghai, May 7-20, 1890, Shanghai American Presbyterian Mission Press, In their brief preface to this book the editorial committee, Messrs, W. J. Lo ber, and J. R. Hykes, con. clude their remarks with the sentence:
The work now completed is sent forth to the world as the Cryatallised memory of a most exhilarating and successful gathering, ith thanks to Him who blessed it for the npetus given to hundreds of workers in all parts of the empire." A most valuable \d interesting memorial of the Conference extending to 744 well and closely 'a decided credit to the asto the establishment from issued. It contains " full record of the Conference, and reprints of all the essays contributed by the members, the whole being furnished with inlet head Sieloo work me China, the important quer hen we consider how large a portion of the task of introducing civilisation in ita best garb into Ching is undertaken and performed by the missionaries, we can realise what a valuable
y foreigner in China, layman as Ttis no szaggeration to say well as missionary, who cares for any farther knowledge of the country than is forced on him by the routine of his daily work, will find thia book an indispensable companion, Tt has an index and an excellent map of China, and the frontispiece is a photograph, with key and list of the nares who made up the group. It contains 263 portraita out of the whole number of those who attended the Conference, 445, representing 36 separate missions, besides the "unconnected" evangel Tista j and of those 263 its—a most interesting memorial—only four are not identified, The China Medical Missionary Journal.
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In his valedictory remarks at the end of another two years' term, Dr, Boone congratulates the Society of which this is the organ on having "'an Editor who has already improved the journal of the Association," and this number justifies the compliment, There are several generally interesting articles—besides those speci jressed to professional readers—incl ing ® historical one on Leprosy by Dr. Edkins, who tells us that Leprosy was rebably known in China in the age of the later classics, two or three centuries before Confucius, and was dreaded as a calamity sent to punish moral " There is an interesting note on Dr. Koch's lymph, and many pages of notes and correspondence, including an appreciative account of the virtues of Ta! Shan as a sanitarium, Residents at outports who are cared for by missionary doctors will enjoy this good-natured epigram from the New York Medical Record Omune trilit punctum qui biscuit utile dulci."
Parson and Doctor joined in one Most suitably we find The one the suffering body treats, The other soothes the mind, The Parson shows the way to heaven And then, with tender care, The Doctor consummates the work, And gets the patients there.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.