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(1834-1860)," and "The Period of Foreign Domination." Then one 

 chapter is given to an analysis of the development of the foreign trade, 

 and a final chapter gives the author's summary and conclusion. Much 

 of the historical sections will be unpleasant reading, especially to 

 Britishers, for they are not spared, and the motives which they have 

 had for their eagerness in advancing trade are imputed with much 

 freedom. Japan naturally comes in for her share in the closing 

 sections. The book is not free from sneers at the missionary, not as a 

 missionary, but as the agent, conscious or otherwise, of cynical govern- 

 ments pursuing their evil courses. Yet it must be said that these 

 faults are not as blatant as in many other works from the pen of 

 Young China, and there is some care taken to state the facts on the 

 other side of the shield. There is for example a careful statement of 

 the state of likin, showing that inter-provincial trade is in a bad way 

 from the exactions of the present laws. The whole is written in 

 excellent English, a smoothly flowing narrative which bespeaks the 

 natural linguist, or else unusually intelligent assistance from a foreign 

 friend, in much contrast again to many efforts of the young Chinese 

 writers, who irritate or amuse by their palpable effort to deal with a 

 medium which they have not really mastered. The whole narrative 

 is attractive in style, and makes very interesting reading, redeemed 

 from the dry-as-dust limbo by that feeling for the personal and human 

 element in history that many a learned man seems to have lost. The 

 whole work is a notable and worthy contribution to the literature which 

 seeks to make the East articulate to the West. H.K.W. 



Etudes sur la Phonologie Chinoise. Par Bernhard Karlgren. Upsala : 



K. W. Appelberg. 

 The first part of this work was issued in 1915, the second in 1916, 

 and the third, completing the work, last year. 



Sweden has paid great attention to phonology for the last twenty 

 years and that one of her people should have written this work on 

 Chinese phonology is becoming. The Author has produced a very 

 imposing work. He has consulted the authorities that have been 

 engaged as the subject in the past, and made investigations into 

 affiliated branches of the subject, in such a way, as to give his work 

 considerable value. Students of Chinese phonologies must in future 

 consult this comprehensive work. It contains all the essentials that 

 have been written on the subject and the original contributions are 

 not a few. The Author says that three problems confront Chinese 

 phonology which may be stated thus (a) Parentage and origin of the 



