REVIEWS OF RECENT BOOKS 



the Founder to mark the recognition of unusually meritorious publica- 



relating to the Far East." In making the award the President 



stated the "Society desired in this way to express their appreciation 



of the Literarj and Scholastic Eminence of Your Kecent Book on 



, readers of this Journal will not be surprised to hear 



in of appreciation. In the review of the first edition 



which appeared in the 1920 volume, the fifty-first, we gave our 



mate of the high value of the work in question. 

 In reviewing this new edition there is no need for us to enlarge 

 on what v. as said in the former review, except to confirm our very 

 favourable opinion of this beautiful' book. Since then it has grown 

 considerably, nearly 50 pages having been added to it. Chapters 

 .) and 10 in the first edition, being expanded in the second, into 

 chapters 9, 10, 11, and 12. There is also added Appendix 11 : The 

 principal festivals and fairs in Peking. The number of illustrations 

 have also been increased. In this new and enlarged form it will 

 find a stiil larger number of readers, who will delight to learn of 

 I 'eking from this fascinating work. We venture to repeat what we 

 said before : "The authoress becomes an excellent guide, conducting 

 the traveller over much unfamiliar ground : directing his thoughts 

 to unobserved objects of art and historic interest, and, as the process 

 advances, a canvas of a vast and beautiful panorama is unfolded 

 before the reader, leaving the impression of splendid creations." 



The work of the Publishers is excellently done. They have given 

 an outward form worthy of the inward art. M. 



Dogs of China and Japan in Nature and Art. By V. W. F. 



Collier. London : Willian Heinemann, 1921, £2/2/-. 



The dogs of China and Japan have at last come into their own. In 



this handsome, and well-illustrated volume, their history is worthily 



recorded. To those who have only been accustomed to see the street 



dogs full of sores and every other malady it will be a very pleasant 



surprise to find that there is another side to the picture, and, that 



dogs of various kinds occupy a definite place in the social life of 



the people. They have played a part in international relations. Indeed 



there is hardly a phase of life in which they have not figured. They 



even been dressed as a man, and carried in state, in sedan chairs, 



like his Excellency. It is common knowledge that they have been 



ied for food, but it may not be equally known that they have been 



object of worship, in rare cases; and often used as sacrificial 



