Interesting Summer Number The special Summer Number of the "China Journal of Scienco and Arts" is indicative of the wide range of interests of this magazine and suggests a number of different types of reader to whom it will appeal. Among the general articles Mrs. Ayscough's concluding section of The Chinese Idea of a Garden" gives some interesting information regarding the Fu Yuan or "Returned Garden" of Soochow; and The Chinese Female Names," by L. C. Arlington, explains many of the symbolisms and historic allusions which cluster around the names of Chinese women. Capt. H. Foote Carey gives a picturesque log of his trip with Mr. Mennic through the Yangtze Gorges.
OF special interest to collectors and art connoisseurs are the articles on "Notable Painting Exhibition" in Peking, by Dr. Ferguson, and "Ancient Chinese Coins," by E. F. 8. Newman. The naturalists are remembered with_ papers on Chinese Fisheries, the Mud-Skipper, the Amphioxus, Migration Notes, a Winter's Day at the Seaside, and others, while the chemist's sphere finds mention in the "Investigation of Thormal Dissociation" and Soap Manufacture. Various reviews and reports cover a wide field, including the hunter's province, and altogether the present issue is a valuable one from many points of view.
Tue unpopularity of the strike which a number of professional agitators are attempting to foment in the local silk filatures, ostensibly for a reduction of working hours, is shown by the fact that many of the women workers actually are voluntarily working longer hours. The attentions of the agitators are so annoying to them that they have chosen to start work an hour earlier than usual and it is said that by so doing they manage tu dodge the pickets. fact is that there is no American adviser to Marshal Chang excepting Mr. Baker, former erican Consul at Mukden. Furthermore, the Fengtien troops hava never entered into a secret agreement with anybody for the purchase of such arms as reported.—Eastern News Agency.
A SENSATIONAL capture of alleged foreign gun-runners is reported inthe Chinese press, the suspects being two men who keep ai restaurant at one of the stations on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway. The "Shanghai Journal of Commerce' states that the resstaurant has been used as a distributing centre for imported arms. A quantity of arms and ammunition was seized at the place. The headquarters of the organization is believed to be at Shanghai.
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