8 large shects—The Tusewe) Printing Press, Shanghai.
The Tusewei Printing Press has just issued a large map of Kiangsu Province, by Father Henry Dugout, 8.1. This map, physical and politic al, is in eight sheets with six colours, the scale being 1 200,000. Sheet No. 1 comprises Shanghai and environs to Wusih, and should prove most helpful in following the events of the present war; sheet No, 2 covers the region round Nanking and Changchow; sheet 3 Yangchow; sheet 4\the peninsula of Haimen; sheet 5 Huaian and Yencheng; sheet 6 Haichow; sheet 7 Yaowan; and sheet 8 the city and environs of exhibits clearly the canals, lakes, railways, cities and market towns of the sections described. All names of places are represented by their Chinese characters, and romanized in French, Reviewing the work the "North: China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society" says: "It should be in the hands of all travellers and even those who do not travel. All will find therein a clear idea of the pose tion of Shanghai, the great em-opium and commercial centre of the East.
A copious index, arranged ale phabetically and comprising about 3,000 namex, renders research easy and expeditious, Father Dugout, who is a member of the Topographical Society of France, and recipient of a" medal from the same, has travelled large ly throughout Kiangsu, and con sulted almost all sources previously Published—"the District round Shanghai and the Yangtze Estuary ip- by.
the Hu 'Conser Board, Shanghai-Nanking Railway Map, Ferguson's and Wade's maps of the Country round Soochow, Father Gaillard's Plan of Nanking,' ce. "These he has much improved upon, and made his work a standard and valuable guide for all who visit this wealthy, highly developed a Prosperous province of China, The work may be obtained from Kelly & Walsh or the Tusewel Press. Price $10.00. Individual sheets 51.00 each, except No. 1 (Shanghai and Environs) which sells at $2.00,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.