The current number of "Social Shanghai" is quite the most interesting issued for some time past. Its main object is to depict "phases of Shanghai life" and the idea is excellently carried out. The history of settlement defence is illustrated with some interesting old photographs, and a review of sixteen years of amateur dramatic work in Shanghai is brought right up to date. The Famine Fete, the races, and the memorial service to the late King of Denmark, and other recent events are all the subjects of special pictures, In fact there are illustrations on nearly every page, and in this important feature of a magazine of this kind "Social Shanghai" is certainly setting up " high standard.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.