The Rowing Club A Vast Problem lz Nom" International Review of the Northern Countries. Published in Denmark: Omar Munksgaards Forlag, Copenhagen; Finland: Akateeminen Kirjakauppa, Helsinki Norway; Gyldendal Norsk Feria, Oslo; Sweden: Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm.
Some notes on "Confucius on Sampan Prom (Histor: f the Shanghai Rowing Club)" By N. of W.
Harris. The Mercantile Printing Ca (1925) Ltd. $3.50.
What Dr, Noel Davis did some years ago for the Paper Hunt Club, Mr. Harris has sought to do, and very successfully at that, for ' the Shanghai Rowing Club, and the result of his labours is an engrossing story of one of the oldest sporting institutions in Shanghai. The first regatta ever held in Shanghai appears to have taken place as far back as 1849. No account of it seems to be obtainable, and the first such event that was recorded took place on October 29, 1852, combining rowing and sailing Seven years later the Shanghai Regatta Club was formed "for the promotion and encouragement of aquatic exercises in Shanghai," its rules following closely upon those of the similar organization in Canton. On May 1, 1863, the present Shanghai Rowing Club came into existence, quite probably, as the author remarks, as a reconstruction of the Regatta Club. -From the very first there was an international complexion about the new institution, for the two senior officers were a Briton and an American. Through three quarters of a century that quality has persisted, and it may be claimed with justice that the Club ranks as one of the first to realize the international status of the community, and to have been conducted along lines which gave full effect to that realization.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.