has met about 140 times during the fifteen or eighteen years, Its object been improvement in the Chinese language and obtaining a knowledge of the native currents of thought, The books that have been elected for translation have been from the large class of ethical publications, novel: Buddhist tracts, and in general from the lighter literature of the Middle Kingdom. After the translation hasbeen read, criticisms re made by the members who, book in hand, follow the reader, and general remarks upon the influence of these volumes upon the Chinese mind.
Tnatend of translations, papers have been read on every conceivable topic, many of which have appeared in the columns of the Recorder and the Daily News. These are usttally discussed in an animated style and the influence of these meetings hus been Lily uplifting, Translations and papers re ted to Things Chinese." The oeiely has a library of about sixty English Yolumes on China and in the next three years it will probably be doubled,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.