Dr. Macnair, who is to lecture this afternoon, formerly spent many years in China, being lecturer on history at St. John's University. He now occupies a chair in the University of Chicago, but is at present on a world tour with Mrs. Macnair, who, as Mrs. Florence Ayscough, was well-known in Shanghai for her many intellectual activities and writings on Chinese poetry and culture.
The Mid-Victorian Consul, whose vicissitudes will be dealt with by Dr. Macnair in his lecture, was T. T.
Meadows, who served in. China during the middle of the 19th Century, his chief claim to fame being his book on "The Chinese and Their Rebellions," published in 1856. Dr. Macnair is well qualified to deal with this subject as his special studies in China have been largely concerned with early relations between China and foreign countries, A sum of $500,000 has been voted by the Central' Government for the relief of distressed farmers in the famine districts in Northern Honan, says a Loyang Chinese message to the "Shun Pao." Of the amount $400,000 will be extended by the Farm Credit Bureau and the Farm-Bank of China, while the remaining $100,000 will be contributed by the Honan Provincial Government, the report states. Another sum of $500,000 has been granted to Jarmers in Western Honan areas, the report adds, and the Chinese Government will shortly extend another sum of $500,000 for conservancy projects in those areas, the report concludes. upon which he has written a number of valuable books.
The meeting is open to the public.
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