The " North China Desk Hong List" for 1908 is now on aale. It has been thoroughly revised and corrected up to December 31, lest, and contains some' 37 more pages than its No apology is needed for failure to publish it earlier; every comprehensive directory takes several mooths to compile, and it is the policy of the publishers to issue a work corrected up to the and of the year, rather than to pat it forth early in January, corrected only to October or November. The i of this is evident wi how many changes in the personnel of the leading hange take place at the end of the year. In s volume of this size some errors must be expected, ly when so many people reserve their most illegible hand-writing for their own signatures, but it is safe to say that proportion of errors thie your is ferialler than ever before. The sole Hong List is the insertion of slips of Iteration in the appearance of the
cartridge paper between the subdivision of the work, instead.of indicating them by cutting the margin of the pages The pablichers latend to issue in July edition, corrected up to date, of the Shanghai Hong List only; the present volume contains a directory of the Northern Outports, a Street Directory, diary of events, exchange tables, and variety of other information.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.