10th December.
We have to thank Mr Jernigan for a handsome octavo yo. lume of 439 pages, printed and published by Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Ld, which he has just given to the world with the above title. A trained writer, and an acute observer and thinker, Mr. Jernigan's former position as Consul-General of the United States at Shanghai, and his subsequent residence here and practice as a lawyer, have enabled him to acquaint himself very thoroughly with his subject in many aspects, and the result is a volume which will be widely read and universally appreciated. 'Throughout the twenty-three chapters into' which his book is divided, and which cover a very wide field, his endeavour has been to discover theunderlying principle in every topic which he. takes up, and then elucidate it from his reading and his personal experience; the result being a series of valuable essays on Admit istrative System; Land Tenure; Sources of Revenue; Laws—Courts Money; Banks; Guilds; Imperial Household; Family Law; Commercial Trend; Interior Trade Routes; Educational System; Extraterritoriality; Strategical Positions; Consuls and a Consular System; Missionaries Pacific Ocean—the Arena; Western Nations in China; Policy; the Emperor—Power and Restraints; Other Methods; Shanghai; Incident of the-Chino-Japan War. It is very certain that the reader who digests Mr. Jernigan's essays in this book will have "a very good grasp of the "elementary" principles which base and influence business and social China." A well-compiled index adds greatly to its value as a book of reference. here is, of course, a great deal in it that is not new, but it is nevertheless a valuable compila-
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