Medical Missionvry Journal, ably edited by Dr. Percy Mathews, opens' with the first section of an illustrated paper by Dr. J. C. Thomson of the Alice Memorial Hospi Hongkong, on Surgery this Dr. Thomson explains briefly and in a very readable style what the Chinese know about anatomy and surgery, and he mentions that they. possessed a very. definite knowledge of the fact at least of the cirouation of the blood long before our era." They have also from an early date known how to produce anesthesia, general and local, and the fact seems' bound to Lo granted that by sixteen centuries at least Ghina has foreshadowed what chloroform and ether have only brought to a higher perfection." In The Beginnings of a Young Mission" and "An Enemy Changed," Drs. Frazer Smith and Horace A. Randle tell something of medical missivaaty work. The directions which follow for the "Manufacture of Rectified Spirit for Medical Purposes" from native sanshvt, with ® very Tucid sketch of the apparatus necessary, should be invaluable to medical und other missionaries in the interior, The well-known author of The Harvest of @ Quiet Eye sends an eloquent article, headed "The Great Charge," on the duty of evangelising. Some teciinieal articles, including an important one by De. Dutthwaite on Leprosy," follow, and continuation of Dr, Hodge's Medi Notes for Non-Medical Reade Editorial articles are very pleasantly it and to the point, and there usual Reviews, Hospital Reports, Record of Medical Progress, Letters from Correspondents, and Notes and Items, Among the last mentioned we find the following interesting communication from the Ven, Archdeacon Wolfe, of Foochow "The settlement which has been come to in reference to the Ku Ning difficulties, which T consider satisfactory, reads as under.
1. Full compensation for all losses sus-tated by Dr. Rigg and the hospital, mate 85 <That the old hospital be given back fully repaired to the Mission.
3. "That Dr, Rigg gets a suitable piece of land within 4 /i of the city gate, as largo as the piece of land he purchased last year, on which to erect a new hosp 4. That the two men imprisoned, on account of their selling lund to Dr. Rigg, be released, at once, unconditionally, 5. "That a proclamation by the High Authorities of the province be'issued at once, stating clearly that missionaries havea perfect right by treaty to rent or purchase land in any part of the province, and erect buildings and reside in them; and' that, in case of any apposition to their doing ao, te case shall be fully and freely investigated by the authorities in conjunction with H.B.M.'s Consul, and condign punishment inflictd! upon thosd who are found to have taken any part in the opposition.
6. That the alleged leader (Clit poi) of the recent riots, be punished by a fine to the extent of the amount demanded for compensation.
"T found it impossible tu induce the authorities to punish Chia Chie-poi further than this, and wisely gave up the attempt to go further, Had 1 persisted in getting him degraded, or otherwise severely punished, I would have had no settlement at all, or'at least, not for a long time when a settlement would have been of comparatively no use to Dr, Mathews reproduces from our columns "A. E. M.'s" touching verses on the loss of the Bokhara; we repay ourselves by taking from his the following graceful I by the pact lnureats ut Shangha
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