This particular essay is easily the best in the book and it leaves the impression that the authoress has, turned into an essay of not more than 41_ pages excellent material to which Justice could only be done in a full-Sized. volume, There are other absorbing essays in the book under review, but various limitations such questions of space, indulgence in the art of contraction, ete, have brought about queer arrangements of proportion, with the result that essay on the imposing subject of Mary Swart, Queen of England, takes little more space than the one dealing with the poet Edward Young, one of the lesser stars of the Augustan age of English letters. For this reason the book gives an impression of imbalance which is not altogether t20 pleasing, though there is not the slightest doubt that the very attractive manner in which Miss Bowen handles liber subjects will commend the book to most thoughtful readers—a.r.-c-
A China Review In the current number of "The Chinese Recorder" Dr. Ralph Felton, visiting Professor of Nanki 'Theological Seminary and. head of the Rural Church" Department. Drew Theological Seminary, contri-utes a most interesting article on' the Rural Church in China. The: difference between the financial abilities of the average Chinese congregation and the average foreign congregation is very great and although self-support is making. some progress, out of a total annual budget for a small group of quite successful churches or parishes Dr, Felton finds that the Mission contributes 87 per cent. It is estimated that the average gift per member in the Chinese ital church is between $1 and $2 2 year. Dr. Felton is of the opinion that this should be doubled—but that the increase should come largely through the gifts of produce and labour. This is a most informative article and gives a real insight into the ruling of some of the churches in China. The Way to Peace is considered by the Rev. G. Francis Gray, of the Church Missionary Society, and in doing so he discusses the ideals of pacifism, economic sanctions and boycott, wen a boycott by Individuals of between nations, "and "pr that "side "where since "tt docs mot di'erin ween innocent and ull and points out that even economic sanctions, if they are likely to. be effective, may easily provoke war. Mr. Gray's argument is that we should be prepared in the last resort for war, then it will not come. A bbroadeast by Dr. Francis Cho-min Wei, President of Central China College, Wuchang, which was made over W.A.B.C. New York on November 28 last, is reproduced under the' litle The Far Eastern Conflict and: the Challenge to Christianity. The Christian Church and War Relict is dealt with by Dr. Robert F. Fitch, while Mrs. Robert Fitch writes on the Tragedy of Willing Workers Without Opportunity to. Work and describes the efforts made in the Shanghai refugee camps to provide the inmates with paid work—in which merchants and exporters are only too glad to ce-operate—a hope ful little article. An appreciation of the late Dr. Regina M. Bigler is included in this issue, together with book reviews and reports from var-fous mission stations.
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