From the Sicawei Observatory. the Bulletin Mensuel, Vol. XXIV, year 1898. 'A beautifully printed quarto volume of 221 pages, with the usual tables and plans, invaluable to all interested in meteorology.
The St. Johns' Echo. July 1900, Published hi-monthly by the students of St. Johns' College, Shanghai This issue opens with an intos ing Editorial by F. L. H. P." on " Panicism," which has affected the native residents here very seriously of late. The writer hopes for the best in the present trouble in China, reminding his hearers that after all God's in his Heaven, All's right with the world."
There are nearly four pages of College news, records of Society meetings, ete. There is a useful article headed "The Boxers" by A. S, Yuen, in the course of which the writer ssys—and it would be well if some one were to send a copy of this to the New York "Independent" to counteract Cul. Denby's senile outpourings Pho most ridiculous and yet most sinister outcome of the crisis is the powerful sympathy of the Dowager-Empress and her bigoted reactionaries with the Boxer movement, which in the recent secret conclave with her advisers was almost unanimously believed to be an undertaking of loyalty and self-devotedness. What a Diind policy! Neverin the history of the world can one find a political blunder of such colossal nature. It will be recorded as the blackest page of our history. The nineteenth century has given the world two women rulers of entirely different types—one the groa'est and the other the worst of sovereigns. One has elevated her nation to be the centre of prosperity, wealth, and power, while the other has played a losing game with a four-thousand-year-old nation at stake, There isa well-written article by F.C. Dzung, headed How can the Integrity of China be Preserved?" strongly urging that China shall not be partitioned, a policy which has the united support of at least Great Britain and the United States. F. IK. Woo sends a very interesting conclusion of his paper on 'Chinese' Folk Lore." In it we find mention of the danger incurred by having an intercalary eighth moon as happens this year Two "eighth moons" occurring in the same year are considered bad. War is the result, as is shown by the characters INA, 8) signifying that four swords come into play, Tuming C. Suez writes well on "The Relation of China to Ancerica and a very readable number is closed by 'A Short Discourse on Idolatry " by N. L. Nien, who looks forward trustfully to the coming of the day "when idolatry will share the common fate of all false religions." But there are more forms of idolatry than the worship of the forces of nature, animals, and images made by the worshippers themselves; and some of these forms hare atill plenty of vitality.
From the "Hongkong Daily Press" office, a most interesting pamphlet Mowitings of the Naval Guns and their subsequent use with the Ladysmith Relief Column, being a lecture given by Captain Perey Scott, 0. B.. and Captain A. H. Limpus, of H.M.S. Terrible, at Hongkong on the 13th ult. There area large number of illustrations and plans, and the pamphlet, "which is published in aid: of the Indian
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