At the next reception for foreign Indies by the Empress Dowager, the Chinese are enquiring whether the will make presents in return for those bestowed by the Empress Dowage~ On th: 13th, the For-ig a New Year'~ lunch at the For Baron Czikann and Mr. Cong leading toasts.
TENGCHOUFU, SHANTUNG, (FRow ovR ows CORRESPONDENT.) j How not to do it.
18th February.
In spite of the efforts of the Throne to [advance learning, truly so called, no jorerwhelming movement is yet manifest the Shantung literati. "The trouble is that while the occupants of the Throne m, they still leave in office as Chancellors,' men who are very much in-tores ed in preserving the status quo ante et anti-Reforni. An order recently issued by the present incumbent in this province, a man named Yin, is moh to the point. Feeling impelled to give some ostensible guidance to the future candidates fur degrees, he has drawn out two lists of books, one Chinese, the other scientific ant mathematical, each list containing twenty-four works. The lists are prefaced by a prelude, evidently addressed_mainly to the Chief Musician in the lassies and harping away on the great and superabundant value of those fundamental writings. Tow rd the close he warns his readers that to love the new and rejoice in the strange is to bring about sell-destruction." From all accounts, such was the actual fact as far as getting a degree was concerned, in the prefectures where he held examinations last fall. The foreign list, while containing one good arithmetic, chiefly consists of books out of date, several lists f scientific terms, scientific magazine, defunct some eight or ten years ago, ete.; te whole being thrown together without regard to order.
lance at the list shows that in mathematthis gem of the Hunlins has made clean jump from algebra to trigonometry, evidently differing with Euclid as roth" value of geometry and its applications. The issuing of such a list strongly indicates a wilful misleading of the students entrusted for three years to this man's care, for he could have had—in fact it is certain that a list of text-books, now in common use in the foreign-conducted schools of China, was presented to him, but no use was made of it. The whole performance serves to demonstrate that men are more important than measures, and it is futile for the Throne to expect any results worth mentioning as due to its efforts so long as it appoints to, or leaves in office, men who are opposed to the measures promulgated, This was happily illustrated by H. duan Shih-kai in the summer of 19.0 the same principle is again illustrate: ed on the other side, Ethical Influence of Railroads.
An intimate friend, just returned from Chinanfu, reports that from that place to Weihien, i.c., along the line of the proposed railroad, he met with uniformly courteous treatment; not once did he hear the old cry of "foreign devil," and the motto of the innkeepers seemed to be: "Bo not forgetful to entertain strangers, for you might be entertaining Germans unawares." From Weihien eastward toward Chefoo the ease was different. No longer did one meet, out every thirty li, a room fitted up with glas< windows, "and over the door the lismanie words, "Schantung isenbahn sellschaft"; neither was the fear of the German in the land, and from Laichoufu to Huanghi-u, th- old-time greeting echoed in one's ears.
Educational, Favourable reports continue to come from the Provincial College. According to last accounts, the ditfurent prefectures had reported three hundred new candidates for ex-mination. Besides these there will doubtless be a ¢ nsiderablenunberapplying directly at the College. As there is not suflic cient accommodation for students to the province hora, and the expenses ate met tothe Shantung treasury, it is rumoured that in the future there will be objections offered to receiving students from other provinces. Perhaps it is just as well, for such a step might hasten the establishment
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