Schools for teaching languages, es,2- cially English, are cramping up all over the city. To know—and mispronounce—the alphabet, to smoke cigarettes and drink champagne, is proof of adopting the new learning.
Ch'en Pi. the Civil Governor, is trying to give out that he has no anti-thy to Mr. Huang Sze-yung and the dustrial School. "He has even memorialised in favour of more such schools, and of such papers as the mandarin paper, and of such en as Mr. Huang—only the old site must be abandoned. We hear that Sir Robert Hart wrote a letter to Governor Ch'en Pi, warning him not to be so anti-foreign, or trouble might come to him. Sir Robert is the one foreigner who is listened to with respect in Peking.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.