Those who require a little relict in contemplating strategic and. emer-[gency problems and desire to be temporarily reminded of a China which is quieter than Shanghai" at the moment, will be glad to ind that JArthur de Carle Sowerby. with the practised ease of an old campaigner has brought out his China Journal for August, even though it entailed the insertion at the foot of his excellent editorials the revealing words we go to press to the sound of artillery and rife fre". Not that the journal itself is concerned with such disturbing portents, Tt discourses pleasantly on Shanghai's coins, on "Rocks, Mountains and' Water in Chinese Art", on fairs in China and on attractive migrants such /Radde's Warbler, the Indian' Cuckoo, the Forest Wagtall and others," War cannot, however, be entirely exclude Jed for there isa picture of Marco Polo Bridge—in its peaceful state fhowever—and other topical views of Peiping. Then disaster elsewhere recalled by Mr. Rewi Alley who. taking for his text the recent volcanic assault fon Rabaul, gives a first-hand account fof the admirable manner in which Chinese residents have contributed to the economic development of that part of the Pacific,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.