New Edition of a Valuable Work Tue Trape AXp ADMINISTRATION OF Cuina. By H. B, Morse, tlk.
(Kelly & Walsh Ld., 1921, $10.) _Dr. Morse's important contribution to the bibliography of China—first published in 1908—has already passed through two editions and the third, revised and brought up to date, is now available. The preface to the first edition stated that "the book is intended to portray the present state of the Chinese Empire and no attempt is made to forecast the future," but the trend of events was so clearly foreshadowed that it was possible in the edition that appeared four years later to say little beyond, ''the Revolution has come."
In the new edition no claim to prophesy is made, but the work is full of suggestions to the student. Before proceeding to: detail the
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