The April number, the second of Volume LI contains' several exceptionally interesting articles which will appeal alike to the specialist and the general reader. in continuation of his study of Chinese Life on the Tibetan Hills, the Rev. J. Hutson begins his third Book—political section—with a chapter on Punishments. The details he has gathered cover a wide range and provide the student with much valuable and interesting material. The same may be said of M. Berthold Laufer's article on Multiple Births amongst the Chinese, containing as it does a great deal of most curious information. Mr. R. F. Johnston, ¢.2.E., M.a., contri-dutes an interesting discussion on the romantic history of the Emperor Shun-chih, arriving at the conclusion that Shun-chih did not, as the popular legend runs, retire to a monastery, but died at an early age. Another excellent article is that by the Rev. Pere Joseph de la Servitre, on the relations of St. Francis Xavier with China. Notes and Queries, and reviews of recent literature, complete a well-edited Tue latest reports from England as to the health of Dr. Morrison are more hopeful and the doctors have stated that the disease from which Dr. Morrison has been 30 long suffering is not cancer, and is now becoming more amenable to medical treatment.
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