A Reference Book of Foreign Residents in this Country Who's Who in China? The idea occurred to Mr. Carroll Lunt some time ago of compiling a reference book of personal information concerning foreigners resident in this country, with the result that there was published this week a neatly designed volume containing biographical notes on over 1,200 persons, official, professional and commercial. Here undoubtedly is the foundation of a most useful book of reference, and we imagine that, just as the proportions of similar volumes at Home have increased to an enormous extent, so in future years it may become necessary for the Editor of the China Who's Who" to economize in space by reducing the size of his type and the thickness of his paper in order that the tome may not become excessively bulky. This, for the reason that apparently the principle of admission to the personal chronicle of the times is purely democratic, al] comers have received a welcome, and the result is an exceedingly: interesting collection of personal data.
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