the Kditor of the Noxru-Cuva Dany News, Sim,—This being the 14th day of the eighth moon, great preparations are being made for the celebration of the Chung Ch'in Chieh AP #K (BH oe Mid Autumn Festival to-morrow. Mooncakes are being froely distributed, as usual. Many of these cakes are no doubt as harmless as they look, but more of them may contain instructions to certain parties awaiting such. Ido not at all pretend to now whut particular instruetious are likely tu be found in these moon-cakes now being distributed to the many thousands of aspiring literary students now confined in the Examination Halls throughout the Empire, but what Ido know is that very important instructions were once 40 distributed in poetical or doggerel verse, one of which verses, if my memory serves me rightly, runs as follows—reading from left to right: Hsiung-ti-chuan-chen, Ko-yn-hao-tou, Kao-chi-fon-pai, Wan-ku-yuchu'an." 5238 BPR, BEAR Sem or ttvsh not a learned man in any sense of the term, some of your readers at Nanking and Peking and in the eighteen provinces are, and on seeing this one verse they may possibly be able to supply the missing ones, and thus furnish us with a clue to the whole concern, Meanwhile it is well for us to be on the alert, Prevention ix better that cure.
Tam, ete., Mesyy.
16th September.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.