To the Editor of the "Noru-Cutwa Dany News"
Sm,—Would any of your readers kindly supply the text and music of the Czecho-Hungariàn-Polish-Sudeten-Ruthenian-Slovakian National Anthem, Music Lover, Shang!
Sept. 26. covering substantially the same field as he did in his recent'address.
Min. KawN's letter was purported to correct certain misreported points. At that he did very well.' But to me it was still a pity that Mu. KANN did not find it feasible to have the man-script of his address prepared for advance release through the press. This is particularly advisable for an address on an important and technical subject. I hope Mr. KANN would not again speak on such a subject without a previously prepared manuscript so as to avoid misunderstanding or misinterpretation:
As I am interested in this subject, I would like to be further enlightened on point 4 in Mr. KANN's letter. It reads: "(4) I am credited with having claimed that The year 1933 marked the farewell to the tael and China's silver currency" What I said was: 'April of 1933 marked the abolition of the tael as the country's currency for wholesale transactions. The tael was replaced by the national silver dollar.' (N.B. The latter was abolished in November, 1935)"
Obviously, the latter part of the sentence in the news report was not true to fact, for China still used silver for some time after the hbolition of the tael in (April) 1933. But Mr. KANN referred to the abolition of the tael as the country's currency for wholesale transactions. What, then, was the country's currency for retail transactions? Were there two separate and distinct Chinese currencies prior to the abolition of the tael—one for whole-
The Public Librar Condition of Books sale and the other for retail transactions?
It also sounds ambiguous to say that "the tael was replaced by the To the Editor of the "Norru-Cutwa Day NE
Sim—There have been many complaints appearing in your correspondence columns recently, about one thing and another; so T think this is an opportune time to register my complaint, although, no doubt, it will fade into insignificance when compared with some of the others.
As a subscriber to the S. M. C. Public Library, I feel justified in bringing to the notice of the' authorities concerned the deplorable condition of the books which are loaned out to the public. I have often had a book with leaves missing, or on the point of falling out; on one occasion I had a book in which a'section was in its wrong order, thereby throwing the book out of its proper sequence. In anóther case on opening a book I found where pages 1 and 2 should have been pages 5 and 6 were in their place instead!
The appearance and binding in general of the majority of books are a disgrace to a public library for a city the size of Shanghai, and should, I think, be remedied if the Library wishes to keep its subscribers.
It would be interesting to know who does the repair work and binding for the Library Lo Gascon Shanghai, Sept. 26.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.