There are 44 pages in this number, of which no loss than 21 are 'There is a pretty frontiepivee, Day, Ancient and Modern," and an amusing apology for the non-appearance of the December number, owing to the sudden departure of the chief editor for Europe, and the printers' pressure of business, In ".note on Rumours of War" the Editor says that "ther is at present absolutely no tangible cause for collision between Russia and Japan." The problem of the moment in Japan, we learn, is how to exterminate the whole tribe of rat From Messrs, Irvine, Edblad & Ca., the agents here, a charming little note-book and diary for the pocket, issued by Nestor Gianaclia, the well-known maker cigarettex in Cairo, Wan Kuoh Kung Pao, A Review of the Times, February 1900. Edited by the Rev. Dr, Young J. Allen and published the Diffucon Sveiety. This number the first ofa series of utricles (in by Mr. F, E. Taylor on **Finan-
The Chinese Mustvated News. February 1900. With five pictures of New York, and others. Published by the Chinese Tract Society.
Village Life in China. A Study in By Arthor H. S: D. D. With illustrations. In cloth, 8r0., 360 pp. New York, Chicago, Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Ca. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, Comparative Statistical Tables and Charts of the Commerce of the World. Compiled by William Harper. In paper, 104 pp. Philadelphia: Commercial scum. 1899, To everyone interested in the commerce, productions, and industry of the world this is an invaluable little hook. Tt contains numerous tables and a series of coloured charts in which the ress, actual and comparative, of the very clearly depicted.
February, 1900, Published at the U.S. Hydrozraphie Office, Washington, D.C.
is issue of this beautifully executed chart is distinguished by its inclusion of a monograph on ''The Use of the Self: Recording Aneroid Barometer on Board Ship."
English and Chinese Grammatical Primer, with exercises. A useful little grammar of 74 pages, neatly the Commercial Pross, Shany
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.