To say that the special Christmas number of Echo de Chine"
new note in Far Eastern is but the bare bones of the many warm compliments which will deservedly be heaped upon its energetic author, To say that it sets a standard in such productions which will not easily be equalled in future is merely to state a plain truth. The initial idea—to produce something, a little out of the common appropriate to Christmas so uncommon as this which finds four great Powers and throe lesser ones fighting side by side in defence of peace and liberty—was modest enough. In the fertile imagination of M. J. Em. Lemitre the scheme rapidly grew, until the result is a hundred pages of reading matter and illustrations excluding advertisements—of a very high class. Indeed it is an indirect tribute to Shanghai that it can produce so large a number of writers to contribute matter of 'y. Every aspect of the every phase of life in China in dealt with in masterly style—commerce, polities, racing, stamp-collecting, sports, philosophy, literature. There is an excellent review of the war by M. Lemiére himself, another of the part year in China by "Mandarin," a brilliant fragment called "The Holy the 20th century by the the Shanghai "Nichi Nichi," a most interesting account of Chinese industrial works in Shanghai, an epitome of the story of Society's library in Shanghai by Mrs. Ayscough. There are also some excellent "special" articles of the feuilleton class, and Inst but not least the poetry, of which "Lo reve de l'aube glorieuse"' by Dufaure de la Prade should assuredly be preserved in some form more lasting than Christmas numbers are wont to be We have not space to mention half of the good things which the number contains, and can only urge our readers to look for themselves. They will ave good cause to thank M. Lemiére for this admirable product of hie energy.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.