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This journal, we presume, is not much read by business men in the East, but the article in the March number, ""Chinese and Medieval Guilds," by Frederick Wells Williams, will be found of wrest and importance to the commercial as well as the missionary body. Aa the title indicates, Mr. Williams institutes a comparison between Chinese guilds and similar organisations in Western lands six centuries ago; but the pointe of greatest value at present are those showing the paramount importance of the trade guilds and the inadequate apprehension of tlieit importance by foreigners in China, Asan instance of how when once launched on fairly defensible course, the, guilds, owing to their dogged persistency, are almost invariably successful, a few particulars of the trouble between the foreign dealers and the Hankow tea guild, in 1883, arogiven. A controversy of another sort, however, which ocourred at Swatow in 188: as an instance of ti it arrogance and exclusion which characterises trade guilds in all countries when they have attained wealth and power. The first portion of thi ide closes with a reference to Chinese guilds in foreign' countries.
The Rev. C. F. Kupfer's contribution on the Dangers and Advantages of Day Schools meet with both protest and approbation. Some, doubtless, will think he magnifies the danger " from the baneful influence
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