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man experionco, anions- the (3lHneso, and, therefore, when they wish to 

 declare the extreme vexatiousness of any piece of work, they say, " It 

 is more trouble than a funeral." Infants are bnried summarily, with- 

 out Collins, and the young- are interred with few rites; but the funerals 

 of the aged, of both sexes, are elaborate in proportion to the number 

 of the descendants and to their wealth. 



Elizabeth P. Gould describes the result of Yung Wing's efibrts to 

 raise the standard of education in his native country during the last 

 thirty years. It was tiirough his influence that students were sent to 

 America to be educated. One of these was Yan Phou Lee, whose bi- 

 ography is given on the basis of his book, " When I was a boy in 

 China." 



W. A. P. Martin gave an account of diplomacy in ancient China. 

 The doctrine of extraterritoriality was unknown; no agent was a min- 

 ister plenipotentiary, and the sovereign always held himself free to dis- 

 avow the acts of his representative : there were no resident ministers, 

 only enroycs extraordinaires. He made a translation of the devotional 

 portion of a i)ictorial sheet engraved and published by the P>uddhist 

 high priest in charge of the Pas-en Temple ; found traces of the philo- 

 sophic ideas of Descartes in the Chinese thinkers of the eleventh cent- 

 ury, and the same views among them concerning filial duty that are 

 advanced by Plato. 



S. A. Stern described domestic customs in Japan and China, the 

 business habits of the people, their dress and amusements. 



H. W. Warren described a journey on the Yang-tze-kiaug, with some 

 geographical and social notes. Canton, he says, is a thoroughly English 

 place. The architecture is imposing and solid. It is a little Loudon 

 planted in the distant East. 



CYPRUS. 



W. H. Goodyear described the Cypriote sculptures in the Metropoli- 

 tan Museum ; and in a note to the Gritic, April 18, corrects some mis- 

 apprehensions in the Critic's notice of his paper published in the Amer- 

 ican Journal of Archaeology on the Egyptian origin of the Ionic capital 

 and the anthemiou. 



EaYPT. 



The various articles on the Tell-Amarna tablets, discussed under 

 Assyriology, all bear more or less on Egyptian history. 



Lysander Dickerman discussed Groflf's discovery of the names of Ja- 

 cob and Joseph on the Egyptian monuments, holding that Groflfs in- 

 ference was not warranted. 



William N. Grolf, who continues his residence abroad, speaks of 

 q. I. u. i. on an Egypto-Aramean papyrus, which he identifies with the 

 Egyptian KelM, a sort of wine; published in hieroglyphic the romance 

 of the two brothers, with a translation and commentary ; discussed the 



