The need of Western education is everywhere felt, and there isa tremendous run upon Dr. Faber's book fi Plj7H BE and Dr. John's FR APY. Students are everywhere asking for the former, and the Jatter is also in great demand. The recent Imperial edicts introducing radical changes in the subjects for Metropolitan and Provincial degrees have already created great amount of anxiety in purely Confucian minds, and the fact that in this city alone during. the triennial examination the first "three successful candidates. for the lin-sheng degree are men' who have won the honour on the strength of their extra-Chinese accomplishments is calculated to still further increase the alarm of conservative students. Great
thereby generally created to acquire a wi vill be achieved if an inclination is more, useful. species of information. The importance of the Edict cannot be over-estimated. Nothing so drastic, nothing so interesting or hopeful for China's future has ever been seen. There will doubtless be a considerable amount of objection, sentimental and otherwise, made all over the country tothe. new proposal,—a love for national idiosyncrasies and a clinging to old traditions exhibited. It is to be hoped, however, that the chan; will' be generally' allowed, and that the adoption of a new style of learning will produce in China those advantages the absence of which has contributed so much to her feebleness in every sense.
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