The natives join with the foreigner in congratulation on account of the commercial prosperity of Shanghai. But is this all? Far from it. There has been a demand, avery extensive one, for new editions of books which were destroyed in times of anarchy. The growth of the lithographic printing lus been phenomenal and it has een a marked feature in the later portion of the half century ending with this year. There has also arisen a demand for translations of foreign books on science, machinery, history and trade. Shanghai has been producing such translations and reprints for many years past, and one of the most striking features in the new Shanghai is its bookshops. The number of persons learning the English tongue has greatly increased. From the schools of Shanghai the country round about the then capital there now proceeds stream of of the empire, Sian in Shensi, was almost English-speaking candidates for positions exhausted in money and men by the rein the Telegraph, Customs, and Naval peated drains made on it td forward the services of the Chinese Government. The desires of an ambitious pritce. The Im-Jubilee of Shanghai as an open port is inperial exchequer was getting tinpty, and extricably mixed up with the change which the crops of the rice-gréwéts had ' been has taken place in the attitude of the nation forestalled by government Wilissaries to in regard to the increase of foreign inter-provide for the half-a-million 6f men mass-course and the spread of foreign ideas. ed on the Shantung seacoast, notably at Shanghai's progress is a type of the nation's progress during the last fifty years. All Tengchow (Chefoo), who were to be led by the Emperor in person for the invasion of the obstinacy of conservatism has not been Corea by sea and land. It then occurred able to check the rush of China along the to the Prince that his traders and crafts-pathway of change. men should also assist; but being scattered all over the Empire, it would be more than arduous to collect individual subscrip: tions, or taxes from the tens of millions amongst his subjects who pursued their
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