The complaint is often heard from Chinese that the pictures and postcards of China sent home by foreigners too frequently portray nothing but the most sordid aspects of the Flowery Kingdom and that her real beauties are ignored. But no more can this be said after the publication of "Pictur que China" an album of phot graphs by Mr. D. Mennie,. of Messrs. A. S. Watson & Ca, a copy of which lies before us. much there is of real beauty in the many creeks and villages easy distance of Shanghai it needs, perhaps, such a book as this to show us Yet it is not the creek and village scenes on which we would dwell. Many people can do these, not so perfectly perhaps, but well enough to give a fair iden of their picturesqueness. But how many can produce such a gem as "Plodding Homewards," just carter and his cart on a very ordinary road at Weihaiwei, yet with movement, feeling and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.