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Two Vols., Demy 8vo., 24/- 



The History of China. 



BY 



D. C. BOULGER. 



Author of •'Chinese Gordon,^' "Sir Sfani/ord Raffles^'' etc.^ etc. 



A New Edition Revised and brought Up-to-datf. 



With the Recent Concessions to the European Powers, 



Illustrated with Portraits and Maps^ 



A Cycle of Cathay. 



" The writer of Chinese history has no need to hunt for material. The records 

 of a nation whicli has existed for close on 5,000 years should not be deficient in 

 incident, and in the case of the Middle Kingdom a continuous series of revolutions, 

 wars, and local disturbances affords a wealth of matter for the pen of the chronicler. 

 The history of China is a subject whicli Mr. Boulger has made his own, and the 

 present volumes are but the pendant to those which have gone before. The first 

 edition of the work under review appeared many years ago, and despite the long 

 intervals which ensued between the publication of the three volumes, and the high 

 price at which they were issued, it attracted much attention among Orientalists, and 

 was at once accorded the position of standard treatise on its subject. The present 

 edition, in two volumes and at a reasonable price, has been carefully revised, and in 

 addition contains close on a hundred pages dealing with recent events in China, 

 which are chronicLd up to the occupation of Wei-hai-wei, and thus supplies a 

 complete epitome of Chinese affairs up to the present time. Regarded as a history 

 pure and simple, indeed, Mr. Boulger' s latest effort is all that such a work should be, 

 and if some chapters in the romance of the semi-mythical period of the subject are 

 omitted, or when included are only touched on lightly, the very full accounts given 

 of the more important events may be taken as a full equivalent. In this respect our 

 author is to be congratulated on having xery nicely gauged the duties of the historian ; 

 and the compression of unimportant details, with the corresponding enlargement of 

 particulars concerning matters of import, bears testimony to the sound judgment of 

 the writer."— /"a// Mall Gazette. 



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The Cave Dwellers of 



Southern Tunisia. 



Recollections of a Sojourn with the Khalifa of Matmata. 



Translated from the Danish of Daniel Brunn. 



BY 



L. E. A. B. 



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