Not a few people beside the American correspondent whose letter appears on another page to-day will endorse his wish that Judge Lobingier's term of effies, expiring in the near future, may be renewed. It is, perhaps, hardly becoming for a newspaper to eulogize a judge until he quits the bench., The title is one of great associations, which should be wholly above praise or blame; and it Is generally _assumed—one is happy to think with very rare exceptions—that a man does not attain to that great position without being
haps, be* said that his Honour worthy oh it. But it may, per-Judge ade is widely respected in Shanghai, which would be glad that he should stay here longer. Furthermore, while justice is justice all the world over, there are technicalities of local procedure which can only be Jearnt by actual experience, and it certainly appears regrettable to make any change when, to the profound knowledge of law and clarity of thought already pOssessed Sy Judge Lobingier, have been added several years practice In the intricacies of jurisprudence China.
Shanghai Revisited No history can be so interesting to Shanghai residents as that of their own forebears in the Far East; and combinjag therewith, ashe does, observations on Shanghai as it is, Mr. Burrows' charming article on another page of this issue May safely be recommended to all readers. Though he looks back only a quarter of a century, it is difficult to believe that the Shanghai of Mr. Burrows' collection ever really existed. But the dividing line might be drawn quantities, and he had nearer to the present than that.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.