To the Raitor of the should omit details of the actual work achieved by the Whangpoo Conservancy Board, the Haiho Covservane Commission, and the North China River Commission, certainly among the most important hydraulic works in Chin. Another curious omission is the National State Lottery.
One does not expect the first issue of a work of reference of this kind be perfect. But it can hardly serously be questioned that some of the contributors have been more. concerned to place conditions in Ching in the most favourable possible light rather than to let the facts speak for themselves.
'The sale of the book abroad is said to have been heavy. It was published a few weeks ago. 'Time perhaps for Japan's sales to be quoted, but terrainly not time for America': oF Britain'.
Shanghai, Feb. 24.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.