Paoren Naatrs Wer Sranoaxo Cuixrse Bquivauexrs.—Pablished by the Commercial Press, Ld, Shanghai.
There is a considerable amount in this handy little book which is intended for the use of Chinege students and others desirous of knowing the Chinese equivalents for the names of leading people in history, politics, musie, law, ete., from time immemorial, and for' names of towns, districts, ete., throughout the world. The English is given with the Chinese pronunciations alphabetical order and the Chinese pronunciations with their English equivalents in order of strokes and characters. Copious rules for the pronunciation of English and other languages are given and these can be used to excellent advantage by many foreigners as well as Chinese.
Unfortunately, there is not enough of the information that one would like to have, such as brief bio graphical notes of persons oF resumes of histories of places mentioned, nor are the names of the countries where these places are situate given. Should these have been included, the book would be far more useful than it is at present. But what can we expect of a book, with several hundred pages crammed with small type and containing thousands of names, which is, not intended to be a biographical or historical reference book? It is a book of equivalents pure and simple and there is no pretension on this score, but it is very handy and no [Chinese student of English should be without it. The Commercial Press fare to be congratulated in producing another extremely useful book.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.