To the Editor of the Nonru-Cuixa Dany News, Srx,—In your issue of August 25th, there appears a letter of mine calling attention tothe "Blue Books" of China. Ihave just received letter from a highly valued Friend, cent the following sentence Your letter in to-day's paper amounts to saying that the £& yt 4 should be suppress sed." As others may have the same impres sion, I should like to state that nothing could have been further from my intention thin to suggest the suppression of this great work. Indeed, I should be exceeding. ly sorry to see it suppressed, being, as 1 think, a most valuable and interesting collection of documents. The work consists of 240 books in all, I have called attention to Live books only, found in the supplement, and mainly concerned with Christian Missions; and what Tsay is that the publication of these fio books, as ley note stan, should be suppressed. All ask for is that whut is slanderous, obscene, and inflammatory in these two bucks should be expunged. Whether there is more in the work which deserves the same fute, Teaunot say; but there can be no doubt' that there is much in this portion of it which ought not to be allowed to remain. The SER is standard work, and it is disgraceful that these false and vile things should appear in it. The fact that they are published in such a work gives them "special weight and value in the estimation of every native reader.
Tam, ete, Gurerru Jouy.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.