Tus Cumvese Reconen—160 Yuen sing Yuen Road, Shanghai, $060.
La Rover Navionat Citnouse—§3 Foochow Road, Shanghai. $1.00, Omerat_Arraima—i0" Avene Edward Vil, shanghai. $1.00, Pan Estee '24 The Bund, '0.00 pa.
'The "Chinese Recorder" for March contains an interesting retrospect by 'Mr. Gilbert McIntosh in the light of. his' Atty yours' experience of Chi In noting the changes which have, occurred in that period, Mr. MeIntosh particularly commends the attention now paid to rural work by the Ne tional Christian Council, "He observes the remarkable development in the position of women and notes the Improvement in the economical handling of mission funds. "An article on the polley of the Netherlands Govminent in Batavia, with special reference to the Balinese, is highly critical of the ban put on missionary enterprise. The tenor of the arti can be gathered from the following quotation:
We do not doubt the accuracy of the following statement in a tourist pampblet:—"The Balinese are' devout Hindus—and they live a life of peace and beauty, as simply as In biblical Ws, the people existing' mainly. for temples and cremations and, of ustenanee, the Flee leh "they ive offerings every week in the year. "The Balinese are widely different from other native Yates—they are highly artistic with fan Inherited devotion
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