This school has been working successfully for some years. While we now and again hear of the pupils getting into fights when on leave, they have certainly attained some degree of proficiency in rill. One interesting point in their training is that whenever one or more of shorn meet a foreigner in the street, they step respectfully to one side, standing at attention. Perhaps the outward form may in some degree beget the inward feeling. At all events, it is a pleasing novelty after one has been jostled more or less insultingly, and hailed as foreign devil, ete., by the rougher part of the population. The excellent Superintendent of this school, Capt. Saito, has some ten or snore assistant teachers. The time of their contract has expired, but they have been asked to remain for another sear, There are in all some forty Japanes resident in Hangchow, acting as teachers, in connection with' the Consulate, oF merchant To The Memory of Li Hung Chang.
It is customary, after the death of a high official, to erect, with Imperial sane-ion, a temple at. such places as have been marked by his more important. services to the state. This more or less ancient custom been. instrumental in me creasing greatly the number of Chinese gods; as often some service is thus commemorate which takes hold upon the public imagination, WI ether this will be the cas with the case with the late Baron ins to be seen. It has not been very marked in the case of most of the temples erected near Hangchow within recent years, most of these being rather places of pleasure resort than places of worship. Ma your readers have visited the memorial temples. of Beng Kung-pao. Tso Tsung-tang, Chang Yao, and others, on and about the West Lake, These are all works of interest. and beauty. At the time of the Taiping Rebellion, Li Hung-chang added greatly to tis merit in the defence of Chekiang, so now the Imperial sanction has been given to the erection of a tiomple to his memory at Hangchow. The site selected is at Kiangsakanz, on the West Lake, acor the School of Sericulture. The recent gor-omar, HE. Jen. appointed " deputy to crew the building. Owing to lack of time, the temple has not been built_on as grand proportions as some others. The salue of land by the West Lake has of late been rapidly advancing, many of the Chinese hei to buy, and build summer residences, The lovely views an]
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