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Oxford: plementary volume is due to the discovery, subsequent to the publication of the previous four volumes in 1926, of some of the) missing records for the years 1742- 1774 in the Legation at Peking. Dr.
itz fair to become the only of Sino-Foreign retion and change, there old. records nate Vat, at this epoch of transi-
should. be published, 'The chapter entitled "Demand for Extraterritorality, 17531764," is. remarkably interesting under' the present. circumstances. It is very difficult for} those now living in China to visuualize the conditions in Canton in the eighteenth century, and yet every mow and again we find an event described that could have happened yesterday. Great credit is) due to the author for the pains tak. ing manner in which he has reproduced, edited, and annotated these) documents.
The "Table of Shipping at Canton, 17431774," with its long list of ships with general charter tonnage of 500, forcibly impresses one with the enormous change which mechanical science wrought in shipping, and at the same time fills one with admiration for the cour-rud skill of those who carried big business ten thousand miles {from this base in vessels which were comparable in size with the largest class of Chinese junk. The probition of the company in regard to their ships carrying opium to China 1771 is noteworthy.
'As to the style of the book, it sufficient to say' that the excel-Tent traditions of the Clarendon Press have been fully maintained. first published book was placed on the Index, and permission to issue Ris later "works on theology was} denied."
The extracts should be sufficient to whet the appetite of those who would learn more about these unexthodox saints. Some of the papers have been issued in. reviews -or rpent in training men for the priesthood, and for more than thirty years he held. most important Teaching post at Maynooth. Yet his magazines but those who have not read: them have a feast in_store, there is hardly a dull line in the whole book—Cianicus.
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