The May number of "The Chi Medical Missionary Journal," a monthly, publication, is fall up to the mark, long opening article by Dr.
freya will be found to be of great interest to others as well as to medical men, tret as it doos of the Chinese—pharmacopmia—somewhat about native methods of medical practice in China, and comparison. To a Chinaman Tam a pays of required preparatii diploma is the more or less handsome sign-boord which an-nonness his determination to bourhood." After reading a list of some.of the drugs in common use Chinese one can well bell ins, quoted by Dr. Jefferys, says that "anything indeed that is thoroughly disgusting in the three kingdoms of nature, lates showing the various surgical instruments used by the Chinese, The malta-closen hospital _roporte from widely separated districts show how ing work of the missionary new hospital of methodist Mission at Wenchow gives good idea of the handsome and sub-buildings which are being erected in connection with the work. The photograph on page 128 affords matorial for the Anti-Footbindiog Society.
We have received " copy vf " Israel senger" of the 18th inst. It con-8 paper read at a mooling of Unitarian Ministers in London by the Rev. A. A. Green, entitled "A Jewish View of Jesus," reproduced from The ide"; an article entitled cabal views"; another on the Sunday servancy Bill; formation of a Zionist Association at Nagasaki, oto., etc.
No. 4'of Vol. VI (April-June) of "Public Works," a quarterly illusteated Record of Public Works at home and abroad, published in London by the Civil Engineering Press, London, has some articles of atoning interest to architects and engineers, The illustions are both numerous and well-executed and non-technical roaders, interested in the matters discussed, nul find them very helpful in the elucidation of the text.
The first number of Vol. III of The Chit linger is 0 Editor, unusually interesting one. A' very striking article on a subject little touched upon is the one by the Rev.
James on "Commorcialiem, and the Native Ministry." Few problema are knottier than the one suggested by this article. The writer, in sooking " aolutakes the position that "the Church is not in the market, in competition with the State or with commerce, for purchasing Labour" and asserts that " the Church cannot afford to keep at any price men who have a price regulated by the market," both of which propositions appear to us to be very sensible ones. The review of recent volume affords the Editor an opportunity of expressing his the much discussed and, time, much misunderstood subject of Christian Union. His animadversion against the common delusion, even among those who ought to know bottor, that denominationalism—rieocssarily divisions, we think
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