After' Shipping and Currency during the first two decades (pp 368-407), which is the limit of the first volume, interesting facts are given concerning silk and tea, the Shanghai staples, and of cotton goods which were exchanged for them. In chapter 49 there is a welcome condescension to the picturesque, together with details of the early social life when as ut the first Masonic ball in 1864 there were ten gentlemen present to every lady. Mission enterprise was slightly in advance of the Port's existence, and has ever since worked alongside of the commercial interests as representing the impact of the West. We owe to Mr. Medhurst the naming of the Roads, with the exception of the Bund. The volume closes with the sketch of the more notable pioneers of Shanghai life, and leaves us looking forward with expectation to Volume IT.
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