The Bible Society then acquired promises in Shanghai and, still hoping that ase might be made of them, the type and books were shipped out here. Nothing came of this, and they were locked away in th strong room of the Bible House in Hongkong Road where they remained, never having been used for nearly 100 years. After 1911, however, when the Manchus in China were dispossessed of their official status and privileges, more success was met with and occasionally calls came from Manchuria for Testa ments, the largest number having been circulated in Chinese Turkestan, where in some of the cities, tens of thousands of Manchus still reside.
The Manchus of Turkestan 'A recent letter was received at' the local Bible House from the Rev.
G. W. Hunter, from Tihuafu, who has spent many years in Chinese Turkestan and is himself a wonder-fol linguist. The letter was written in a city in Sinkiang and was itself 'a most interesting document. Mr. Hunter, who wrote it in a room in 'a native inn in which there was absolutely no furniture Kang on which he slept, in the city were some Manches and that more tha per cent. of them were people. They were especially keen for any books in their mother tongue,-and upon hearing that he had a few Manchu New Testaments, they almost quarrelled among themselves in their eagerness to buy them. Over 1,000 copies could easily. have been sold in that one city, and Mr. Hunt: accordingly wrote to Shanghai asking for fresh supplies. The stock, however, was just ex. hausted, only two of the original 1,000 remaining in the Bible House and the question of a new edition is now under consideration.
Original Edition to be Photographed He-will probably be produced by. photolithography rather than by re-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.