es The peace negotiations are or are not broken off! What does that matter when we have the second smmber of the second volume of the" Rattle" to console us, with "HOH." in finer form than' ever, 'The likeness of the popular colonel in "Two Points of View" is simply perfect, and only a man born blind could mistake the two, sharebrokers' portraits on puge 2). 'The' repre ion of the genial major on page 22 is, not quite so successful, but the adjutant is hit off to the dimple in his chin, The central cartoon is a triumph, particularly in the faces of the mandarins in the (background; it is unfortunately a bitter trath that " Kuang Hsii goes nowhere unless 'Empress Dowager, s included tion. The Commissariat have xv innings on pre 27, and there is an excellent likeness of a' popular Be-edict on p last, and a very good one, of etches is on page 31, illustrating the "Primer of Oriental "Anthropology." From other hands we have an almost too real sketch of two unfortunate refugees on page 21; a sketch of a Baluchi being kodaked on avery suggestive full-page pi shades of Shih Huans-ti and Yung Lo con templating the lighthouse recently erected at the end of the Great Wall at Shauhai-
As touching the letterpress, the verses are decidedly above the average; there is great deal of seriousness in those headed 1900-1901," bnt this is inevitable in a comic paper. There is a great deal of humour and something more in the "Tutercepted Conversation at a C.C, Dance and there is much that is amusing in the article on *'The Imperial Institute." The description of Shanghsi in Baedeker's Guide Book hardly does full justice to the attractions of the port, We trust that the proprietors will forgive us if we quote in full the final sonnet
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.