Ith January, 'THERE are annual reports so vapid end wordy than when they are taken in hand for examination they collapse like a bubble, and tething of any value remains; there dre others so full of matter tersely expressed and free from unnecessary verbiage, that when it is attempted to make a precis of them, it is found almost impossible to condense them farther without omitting some or many points of interest in them. Professor Leavenworth's Report of the Executive Committee of the American Association for 1904, read at the recent annual meeting of the Association, belongs to the latter category. It begins with some short notes on miscellaneous events, the dozire of the Association to ensure that the national holidays of the Republic shall not be forgotten in Shanghai; the visits of Prince Pu Lun and H. E. Chou Fu; the regress of the Association; Mr, W.. Davidson's excellent lecture on Manchuria; the lamented death of Mr. RF. Eastlack and Mr. Norman McGee; and the contributions of the Association to funds for the relief of suffering humanity in Menchuria, Then we come to a very important question, the attitude of the Chinese Government towards foreigners who are anxious to exploit the mineral resources of the Empire, "Tt is manifestly visionary," says the Report, "for China to shut out foreign capital' and foreign advice
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.