Freshness of Youth ComI with Gentle Corpulence of Increasing Age Combining: the freshness of youth with a gentle corpulence indicative of advancing years, the "North China" Hong List for 1925 makes its appearance with the sure prospect of remaining the business man's guide-and friend, if not philosopher, for another 12 months. 'The Hong List is indeed becoming a portly volume, and its pages reflect. the ever-increasing growth of China commercial activities, and partie larly the expansion' of trade and comimeree in Shanghai, Fully two thirds of the volume ix taken up with information on Shanghai, the mass of detail being so arranged to admit of instant reference, every phase of local activity being cove fed: business firms, with their stalfs fand agencies, arranged ally, Chambers of Cor sulates, Churches, Clubs, Missions, Hospitals, Railways, and' Shipping.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.