Two Centuries of Service and Achievement "Lrs ONCINNES MIRsIONS DE LA. Comt-'Jesus EN Chine (IS82- "By 3. de la Serviere, 8.3. Thsewel Press, Shanghai, names of the who have worked in China from the close of the 16th century to the early years of the 19th, are well known to the general reader. A full and connected record of what they have achieved, not only in one province but throughout all China; their literary and scientific output, so helpful in making China known to the West, jond it must be added the ya persecutions, exiles, and even death, of which some of their member: have been the victims, have not yet licen presented to the public. Tv the present work, we have an excellent compendious view of all that has been done during a period of 262 years. The divisions adopted by the author include work and results under the Ming dynasty (seven chapters), and later on under the Tsing or Manchu House (again seven chapters), down to the year 1S14, when the last Jesuit, Father de Poirot, died in Peking.
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