From tie "Norra-Curva Dary News"
OF SEPTEMBER 8, 1877
"Many of our readers will have felt, at one time or another, the inconvenience of not having at hand for reference a copy of such and such a foreign treaty with China, Several of these had never been printed. Others had been separately printed after negotiation, for semiprivate use; others have seen the light in the columns of newspapers, and others again have been recorded in European publications such as the British and Foreign State Papers, compiled in London by Mr, Edward Hertslet, or in the Archives Diplomatique; the corresponding Parisian work, but for all general purposes, they have remained virtually inaccessible, Under the editorship of Mr. W. F. Mayers, all the several treaties and agreements which have been from time to time concluded by China with other nations, have now been collected and printed at the "North-China Herald" office in a convenient volume of some 250 pages. The large number of copies which have been subscribed for beforehand proves that the work will be especially welcome at Consulates, Legations, and Customs Offices, and we have no doubt it will be found a necessary book of reference by many private readers. There are some documents in it which will bye and bye call for especial notice, In the meantime we merely acknowledge the book, the subscription copies of which will, we understand, be distributed next week, as quickly as they can be prepared.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.