"EXERCISES IN TRANSLatION: English-Chinese; Chinese-English," by J.
B, Grant and Tai ora kiu, "with foreword by the Rev, D.' Mac:
Gillivray, D.p., tip. ('The Mission Book Company, Shanghai.
Price $1).
Teachers in schools for Chinese and foreign students of the Chinese language will be glad to see' the manual of translation just issued by the Mission Book Company and prepared by Mr. J. B. Grant, Principal of the British Chamber of Commerce Language School. A book of this kind has been greatly needed for several years.
There are 98 exercises and several specimen examination papers set at the Hongkong Local Examinations and by the authorities of St. John's University. Nowadays, insurance and other companies require candidates for clerkships to pass an examination in translation; so also do the Chinese Post Office and the Chinese Maritime Customs; the Hongkong Matriculation examiners also include a paper in Chinese-English and English-Chinese translation, sv that Mr. Grant's manual is sure -to be in demand.
Lyre Drcrronary of Duirricurrres for Chinese students of English," by M. A, Couling, xt.a.
—(Kwang Hsueh Publishing House, Shanghai).
Miss Couling, who has been on the teaching staff of the Shanghai High School (Ming Lih School) for several years, has compiled a book that will be of unusual value to students, and especially to Chinese students in English.
There are three parts, viz., Part 1, dealing with difficult words in alphabetical order; Part 2, which gives grammatical expressions in alphabetical order with notes, and Part 3, containing miscellaneous -bad sentences for correction. We doubt the wisdom of including the third j section of the book. Our experience with Nesfield's grammers has been that the correction of bad English often leads to faults which otherwise would
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.