Friends in the Far East will Jearn with pleasure that "John London's Weekly," a well" recog: nized literary paper, of January 23, includes among the nine best selling Looks of the moment Mrs. Florence!
Ayscough's "A Chinese Mirror" recently reviewed in these columns.
"Matilda, Governess of the Eng-Jish," by Sophia Clough, published cly Macmillan and on sale here at Messrs, Edward Evans & Sons, is a tale of London when Victoria was young and Charles Dickens went to
the leisurely telling of the gay ro-There is much charm in mange of Matilda, the Cinderella heroine, and the gallant Marquis of Lassington. Matilda's career never Jacks excitement, from the time she comes to. the family of the Duchess of Westmainham as nur serv-severness, to the day when the titled husband' she has married by proxy for an unwilling—fianeés, succeeds in winning her heart. ig not used of Roman Catholics, as our author mistakenly supposes. The "Musings" about _education in China, and especially about "returned" students" willie endorsed by many readers who know China well. We are _glad to have our author's confirmation of our own belief that "Agitators are a small percentage, even at, the treaty-ports, and almost unknown in the interior. The great mass of the people do not even know there are unequal treaties', or that there was a Washington Conference, how then can resent the holding of concession and the pri toriality?"
We cordially commend this book] to. readers, as having scarcely a dull sentence in its 650 pages.
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