It is not often that Shanghai residents have the opportunity afforded them of visiting two circuses of a first-class deseription for any length of time. But that has been possible this year, and will be so for some weeks more td come. At one end of, the Settlement there is Baroufski's Circus, which has never failed to draw appreciative audiences of both foreigners nad Chinese, and far away in another direction Mr. George Warren has opened a show that for all-round excellence will take a great deal of beating. At both these circuses the premier positions on the programmes are taken by highly intelligent members of what we are pleased to call the brute creation, and the result, shown in the work
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