or ARI, 29, 1878
Five years ago, a small volume was published containing a reprint from the "North-China Herald" of the Retrospects of political and commercial events which are written every year in that paper. for the five years from 1868 to 1872. Ti was intimated at ihe time that the sign would be carried forward. and iota fresh volume would be published at the expiry of anther five years, Containing retrospects of the period from 1873 to 1877. That perid has now arrived, and the promised volume is published in due course. It is considerably bulkier than its predecessor, owing the greater length of the commercial "articles, "which have continued to expand—from the nine pages that were held to suffice for the year 1868, to thirty which are devoted to a review of commercial matters in 1877. The scope of the book is hardly such as will command for it a large circulation: but it will have considerable local value, both as a compendious sketch of the chief politico! incidents of the Noël,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.