which are to take place in Honan soon, we understand that the Linngkiang forces are to be joined to the Hukuang troops unlier Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, while the Honan troops are tobe united with the Chili forces under Viceroy Yuan Shu-k'si. officials, were filled with wrath at this expose of the doings of their class and wished to suppress hooks but not a few enjoyed reading them. Another well-known work of six volumes the " Keng-tzo_Kuo-pien Tau-chih," "r "Chronicles in Rhyme of the! Revolution of 1900," depicts in graphic! verse the Boxers, the flight of the Imi its return to ful chronicle 9th April. A Less to Chinese Journ lism and Literature. with much regret that we have tochronielo the death here on Satur-tay from tuberculosis, at the age of forty, of the well-known (hinese journalist and literatenr, Li Peh-yw Wwhoas nom de plume it is no exaggeration to say la known to thourards of walers of Chiveso literature wherever they may be, whether in this Empire, or in the United States, in Australia or in the islands of the Southern Pacific and Intisn Ocean. The late Mr, Li Peh-yuan wasa native of Ch'angchou. in this province (and therefore a fellow-townsman of BLE. Sheng Kung-pao) and came from a family whose scious have furnished to the country for a century half, without break, many learned scholars and lin tinguished mandarins, His father was, some years before the German ocetipation, tub-prefect of which post he held for nearly ton years, whil hold at the protects, and depart magistrates in the' provinces, and, in Peking, ax Consora and members of the ints of the Great Boarda of The subject of this sketch countrymen in in, Bhanghai of those far 98 they relate to persona, the author having taken his materials from authentic reports in the Press, and from eyewitnesses who followed the court mite flight and were in the Palace show the Boxers beg popular did that oven HIM. the Emprose Dowager ordered a sot rud we know from the lips of un eyewitness that hor Majesty actually shed tears when reading the sca which vividly recalled to the venal memory the dangers and hardships of the flight from Poking. The news of the death of this talented writer has stricken sorrow in the hearts of all of the late Mr. Li Peh-yuan's friends and indeed will be received with lively grot by the thousands and tens thousands of those who have read books.
The Nanch'ang *egotiations.
A telegraphic dis; ate received by the local mai d tes that HE. Liang Tun: ini Commis ner, and the F ench Rep: esenta ice, left Naneh ang en the afternoon of th Peking sri beds ed from the to show that we arguments re the Nanch'ang murders are to be conducted in Peking now inst ud of at Nanch'nng.
Distressing News fro!
"Yushipao," whose name explains ite raison d'étre, making for it @ name tow widely known throughout the Contral and Southern provinces. Six years ter ite inception the " Yushipno" ras taken over by a syndicate with the late Mr. Li Peh-yuan still as its Editor, but his term of agreement with the syndicate having expired, he started "Ran ich has gained great another paper—not comic—called the
popularity in Shanghai and the neigh-booring cities a a chronicle of the ative social life of this city. The remarkble success of the former journal, of course, inspired many imitators, bat none of them having an editor possessing born talent of Province, Oficial dispatcher have been received feom Chungking to the effect that Tibetans and Chinese frontiersman, the Szechuan-Tibet frontier, have risen in rebellion in the sub-pre-feature of Pachon. The cause in said to be due tothe levying by the anbprefect of Pachou of a tax on local arch received by the local mandarins reports a reverse suffered by Imperial troops who were attacking the fortified monastery of Shangpu, Tibet, whither large number of Tibetan insueganta had fled. The Government troops are said to have lost nearly 500 men. seeing humour in the things enacted ily before his eye: 7 succeeded to any extent. While editing his new paper, the " Fanhuspao," the Into Mr. Li, eral works of fiction, or "Mandarindom Exposed," ing thirty short volumes in all, The way its author "showed up"—the himself coming from the offices classes was a proof that beknow what ho was writings bout. The humour, skill, and sometimes pathos, with which his fluent pen graphically describe the characteristics and mannerisms of h living, but die; flue names, never fail to strike the reader with' admiration and wond We may here also state that nearly all his stonen and the dramatic persona 10th April.
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