The July. number df La Revoe Nationale Chinoise (Shanghai) contains thoughtful articles on Chinese problems and also a lively record of the doings of the French_community in Shanghai. The special article discusses Nanking as the new Capital of China and the progress which is being made in making this ancient city worthy of its new functions. The writer of, the article points out that much has yet to be Gone before it can assume the appeartinee of a modern capital,, but the delays are mainly due to the inking Government's preoccupaons with the Internal troubles of The development of aviation in China is also- noted in a short article, and a warm tribute is paid to the enterprise of the American company which has been successful operating between Shanghai, Nanking and Hankow.
The usual extracts from foreign and Chinese papers to illustrate the progress of events in China are duly set out, and the value of the Revue is increased by a well balanced survey of the political developments of the past month through Chinese cyes—although obviously the vision is mainly directed with a Nanking focus of Reviews (London)
jes with it the imprint fof the masterful personality of Mr. Wickham Steed, although it perhaps has not that colour and vigour which characterised his famous predecessor, W T. Stead. apart from the usual welcome features of this Review—its extracts from other Reviews, its collection of cartoons and its diary. of events—the Editor's contribution for June, dealing with the outlook for Britain, is particularly ting, and its concluding passage is well worth eve that our people have them. "The wait of our political their "eager faith "in "its Again, and. again during the Ing mat, the "people of For more than a sear the eeliot that' they' "would not the they will gland anything that they fre convinced is necdfal and right.
are wailing fo Whol sive when the Tesd they The summer number of Countryman" Oxford is as attr tive as ever to those who revel—reminiscently alas!—in the beauties of the English countryside. The movement for preserving rural Eng-Iand is well supported by this little publicction—and as an alleviation fof nostalgia a dip into its pages should be 2 most effective Yesert. As an example, let this delightful extract be made on the subject of wild flowers:—
"Definite stances of serious uprooting of wild flowers are more to the. point than the general state ments a0 frequently made, Here are Last year and {here have been mense. 'But the area of must, be United. Ie is a Geplorable sight? (2) "I have a little Sood full of primroses, "One 1 Ing I passed @ gipsy woman, wh ing to the station for conveyance London a perambulator fall of prim ose roots." (3) "One of our' men found boat fort bundles of ferns in one of our woods ready to be int ways' May we repeat the ames Se made some. time since. that the best ways. of helping the preservation of wild flowers isto Beach in the schools, and in our own homes, by example, what the Japanfcc have demonstrated, that a few Sowers, or even one' flower is 8
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