Aug. 1.
Mr, T, R, Banister, has, in the midst of other official duties, accomplished a notable pi research in the prepara the Jubilee series of the Customs Decennial Reports. The first volume noticed elsewhere to-day ig. prefaced by a brief history of China's external trade covering ithe period of 1834 to 1881 and by synopsis on the period of 1882 to. 1981. While, of course, Ispecio interest will attach to the detailed reports on the individual treaty ports—the volume to hand covers the North-jem and Yangtze Ports, attention may be conveniently first drawn to the general appreciation of [China's trae history as present-Jed by Mr. Banister with such painstaking completeness and in
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