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man experlenco ainon<i- Mio (Chinese, aiul, therefore, when they wish to 

 (lechire tlie extreme vexationsness of any piece of work, they say, " It 

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

 out coilins, and the youui;- are interred with few rites; but the funerals 

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

 of the desceiulants and to their wealth. 



Elizabeth P. (iould describes the result of Yung Wing's eftorts to 

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

 thirty years. It was tiirough his intlueuce 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 eni'oj/es extraordinaire^. He made a translation of the devotional 

 portion of a pictorial sheet engraved and published by the Buddhist 

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

 soidiic 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 Jai)an and China, the 

 business habits of the people, their dress and amusements. 



H. W. Warren described a Journey on the rai>g-tze-kiang, with some 

 geograi^hical 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 Critic, April 18, corrects some mis- 

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

 ican Jonrnal of ArcJuvoIofpj on the Egyptian origin of the Ionic capital 

 and the anthemion. 



EGYPT. 



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

 Assyriology, all bear more or less on Egyptian history. 



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

 cob and Joseph on the Egyptian monuments, holding that Groff's in- 

 ference was not warranted. 



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

 fj. L u. i. on an Egypto-Aramean papyrus, which he identifies with the 

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

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



