One of the most hopeful signs for the future welfare of China, though as yet the promise is no bigger than man's band, is the incipient desire, we might almost say the determination, on. the part of both men and women of far-secing intelligence, to attempt female education on a wider scale than haste been dene Throughout a long past the education of the Celestial empire, apart from the imperfections inseparable from' the system, has lamentably failed. be~ ievaad of concession. In the pre-cause it has almost entirely over-sent case, there does not appear to Sir Robert Jardine, took over the looked one half of the population, be anywhere & word of regret uttered firm of Jardine, Matheson & Ca. who should have shared ite advant-" for the victim himself. He was one came out to Canton originally in the ages. In the West -very divergent ofthe chief supporters of Alexeieff 18th century in the service of the ideas obtain as to what constitutes and Besobs wrazoff, a prominent member East India Company. 'There has al-sound education. A recent writer' of the ring who brought on the pre-ways been a stream of good men to affirms that an education should sent war. As Governor of Moscow, curry on the work of the firm in the appeal concomitantly to the great waa personally hated; and even Easd, but the guiding spirit has intellectual faculties of the indivi-the " Ostasiatische Lloyd's " tele: always been the old Scotsman whose dual. Ib should minister to the from Berlin tells us that "nowhere dear! recorded to-day. It came capacity and development of the pathy is shown for the rourdered so very sudden blow here, but imagination, the memory, and the sympa ko Sergius." If this helps news of his illness reached Hong-reflection, On the other hand, an-to explain, it cannot excuse " the deep cong some days ago. other great authority has maintained damnation of his taking off."
Sir Robert Jardine was born in that what concerns the physical The Grand Duke Sergius was the 1825 and married in 1867, his heir sciences is no burning matter of daily fourth son of the Emperor Alexander being his son Robert, born in 1868. interest to the average mind. Ina TH, and was born on the 29th He was a Liberal in politics, and word, we should universally be mor-'April (os) 1857, 90 that he was in was successively member for Ashburlists and only by accident geomehis 48th bac He was married on ton, Dumfries, and Dumfriesshire, tricians, Therefore, "the education the 3rd of June (0.8.) 1884 to Princess, retiring in 1892. To describe what which is most helpful to the masses, Elizabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt, the British merchant in China was is that which will instruct the moral daughter of our Princess Alice and in Sir Robert's day, and what to 4 faculty, and develop it into a robust sister of the Czarina. His murder great extent he has remained, we activity, Not only ea, but the may have been due to his personal cannot do better than quote the average education should tend to unpopularity—he had had a serious opinion of an unimpeachable autho-make us agreeable and pleasing in warning a few days before—or it rity, Mr. Alexander Michie, in "The out intercourse with our fellows, and may have been intended to make
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