To those who are interested in, and get benefited by this magazine, and who may have been grumbling at its tardy appearance, we feel sure spirit of warm nppreci tion will take the place of the feeling of legitimate captiousness; as they realise the
constant readers and hai ors value of this delayed a number. The of back numbers will specially wel leone and esteem the indices to the first ninevolumesof the Journal, which are bound in a separate cover. The index of subjects fills eleven pages and makes the volumes from 1887 to 1895 a useful reference library to the busy medical missionary. The index of authors occupies four pages, and in an editorial to the Journal is commended to the thoughtful and repentant consideration of many of the members of the China Medical Missionary Association. Certainly the editor—as busy a man as any of his fellow medical missionaries—is not backed up as he ought to be. The nearly 28 pages of carefully selected up-to-date items in Medical and Surgical Progress the varied information in the evangelistic department; the editorials; and the happy choice of 'Notes and Items are some of the indications of how much the editor is interested: in the Journal; whilst the scanty array of authors' names in the contents of this double number shows how little interest the members themselves seem to have in their Dr. P. B. Consland tries to make up for the shortcomings of others, He supplies some statistically backed up observation on the opium. habit, writes regarding the bubonic plague in: Swatow, and makes a-plea for medical statistics.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.