Frei the wny the body was hanging it is difficult to understand how the man could have committed suicide.
Wo have received, with the compliments of the anonymous authors, two pamphlets Printed and published at the Shanghai mercury otice, A Critical Digest of **Indulgent Treatment of Foreigners," by China's True Friend, and The Hunan Tracts of China, analysed by a Shocked Friend. The Intulgent Preatment of Foreigners absurdly ignorant, though well-intent from the point of view of a Chinese patriot, tract, written by the great Admiral Peng Yibdin and Wang Chilyebuu, with a aupplement by Hsii Ching-chu, Chinese Minister to Japan, ete., in 1884-86. It has been often referred to in our columns, and the present digest of it will be found useful for reference by those who like to know how near the truth high Chinese officials get in their ideas about foreigners. Those who have not seen the Complete Picture Gallery published at Hunkow, or the separate placards which wore distributed at the recent meeting at the Lyceum, will be interested in The Hunan Tracts of China, but unless there is a recrudescence of this anti-foreign propaganda, we ate inclined to think that it would be best now in the interest of Chinese and foreigners to let this disagreeable matter drop.
Are Christian people to be invited to become Confucianists as they are to become Buddhists? It seems so from the following original sonnet that has been In conse' all Materialists, which includes a vast number of so-called Christians, are in sympathy already with Confucius, and they might easily adopt a worse prophet as their
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