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the success with which the problem of presenting the language in 

 tabular form has been solved. We join in the praises of the author's- 

 zeal, patience and scholarship. H.K.W. 



The China Review. Edited by S. Couling, m.a. 



This Journal runs its race successfully. It is full of good things. 

 The writers, it is evident, have put time and thought into their articles, 

 and undoubtedly derived much pleasure and satisfaction from their 

 work. There is quite a variety of articles suiting many tastes and 

 emanating from many minds. We wish it further prosperity, as it 

 goes on its way opening up avenues of study and clearing paths full of 

 difficulties and obscurity. 



The Foreign Trade of China. By Chong Su See, ph.d. New York : 



Columbia University. 

 This substantial volume is No. 199 in the series of studies in 

 History, Economics and Public Law edited by the Faculty of Political 

 Science of Columbia University. It is duly provided with useful 

 appendices, a detailed bibliography and an index, and the first question 

 that arises in the reader's mind will probably be, "When the rest of 

 the apparatus is so complete, why are not bilingual facilities pro- 

 vided?" This volume like many others on China published in America 

 suffers seriously from the failure to write the Chinese names, and give 

 the Chinese versions of some of the documents in the Chinese character. 

 The day when a work on China appears from an American publisher 

 with the Chinese characters in their places will be hailed with joy by 

 students of things Chinese. 



We are becoming familiar with the sort of work which the Chinese 

 student publishes abroad. It is distinctly ad hominewi, and seems to 

 be intended for propaganda purposes chiefly. The work we are con- 

 sidering is not free from this fault, but we are glad to say that it 

 appears to mark a distinct advance. That a young student should be 

 patriotic is to his credit, and if he has a clear eye for faults where 

 they exist even in his beloved fatherland, we can pardon his zeal in 

 defending its virtues. 



The largest part of Dr. See's work is historical. Beginning with 

 the dawn of commercial intercourse, he traces in his first chapter the 

 course of foreign trade down to about 1500 A.D. Then come chapters 

 on "Early Trade Relations with Europeans (1500-1833)," "The 'Closed- 

 Door' Policy," "The Turning Point of the Foreign Trade of China 



