We do not know whom the Chinese Post Office retains to engrave its stamps, but the It is as a rule singularly effective. was not possible, perhaps, to do much with the features of earlier Presidents—no disrespect to this gentlemen is meant. But the familiar junk was extremely pretty and even more so are the new stamps printed to comme: morate the signing of the Constitution, of which the Postal Commissioner has been so kind as to send us a set. They represent the Temple of Heaven in a frame of Tonic pillars, doubtless to symbolize the blending of Fast and West in a thing so strange to Orientalism as a written Constitution. The set consists of one. three, four (th's one of a very pretty soft red shade) and ten cent stamps.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.