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princes and preserved those priceless works of human genius and 

 memorials of a nation's culture. 



This is no ordinary guide to Peking, it is that and much more. It 

 is an elaborate and highly descriptive account. Miss Bredon has 

 gathered up the information of others to some point and worked them 

 into a fine story of the great city of Peking. She starts with a 

 historical record and in this way links up the successive eras and 

 epochs of the city, — gradually unfolding the expansions that have 

 taken place. She does this by fixing on some particular buildings and 

 in describing them brings out the accumulated history connected with 

 them, both of persons and events. We enter through the wonderful 

 walls that shut Peking in, — having passed within, we dwell by the 

 Sea palaces and takes and hear the echoes of the footsteps of those 

 historic personages that have passed by, and who have wrought good 

 or evil in the land from those secluded retreats. Throughout these 

 pages therefore we hear the tramp of the soldier and the din of war 

 as well as the more peaceful avocations of peace and industry, resulting 

 in great constructive works typifing the nation's ideals. The descrip- 

 tions are vivid and graphic making it a truly illuminating book. 



The visit to the temples is an education in itself and the account 

 of the Museum with its wealth of precious things helps as "to feel" 

 porcelain and to give us a training in history, mythology and art. 



There are a few misprints : p. 45 bughed should be bulged : p. 49 

 whereever should be wherever, and all through Ssu should have a 

 modifying accent. 



The work is well executed : the printing, paper, binding are a 

 great credit to Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, Ltd., the publishers. There are 

 7 maps and 87 illustrations. The reader should know something about 

 Peking when he lays down this fascinating volume. M. 



English-Chinese Dictionary of the Standard Chinese Spoken Language, 



and Handbook for Translators, including scientific, technical, 



modern and documentary terms. By K. Hemeling, Ph.D., 



Commissioner of Chinese Maritime Customs. Based on the 



Dictionary of the late G. C. Stent, published 1905 by the 



Maritime Customs. Shanghai : Statistical Department of the 



Inspectorate General of Customs, 1916. 



An adequate review of such a work as this can be obtained in either 



of two ways. A masterly scholarship in the Chinese language would 



enable one in two hours to search out the faults and the virtues in 



