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writer of this article has fallen into a blunder. He speaks of the 

 "feathered cap with its distinguishing button, and the embroidered 

 gown were the prescribed dress of the graduate." Nothing of the 

 sort. The graduate's dress in the past was a very modest and 

 becoming one : a brass button in the circular hat and a black robe, 

 nothing more. The writer in the directory is confusing two things. 

 He is describing an official's dress. The official button is never brass 

 but a brass button is the distinctive mark of the graduate. Let us 

 hope the description of the gowns of the various foreign universities 

 is more correct. 



Mrs. Frost gives a very useful article on the Teaching of Drawing 

 in Chinese schools : and the Government's Educational work in Peking 

 gets adequate treatment. 



Full and adequate information is given about the Hongkong 

 University. Its curriculum and examination papers. These things 

 should prove of great value to those preparing for that Institution. 



This volume is to be commended for its varied and useful 

 information. The price is $3.00. M. 0. 



Forests and Chihli Floods. D. Y. Lin. 



This pamphlet is the translation of a circular written for the 

 purpose of stirring up the Chinese public to the realisation of the 

 necessity for reforesting the barren hills of their country. Mr. Lin 

 is a graduate of the Forestry School of Yale University, and since his 

 return to China a few years ago has spent his time in lecturing under 

 the auspices of the Conservation Department of the Y.M.C.A. on 

 behalf of reafforestation. He has visited the majority of the provinces 

 and has excited enthusiasm wherever he has lectured ; he may be said 

 to have laid the foundations of a work which it is to be hoped will 

 eventually succeed in restoring to China her forests, which have been 

 swept away in the most reckless fashion. Mr. Lin at present is at 

 the head of the Forestry Department of the University of Nanking, 

 where he lends valuable aid to the energetic Professor Baillie. His 

 whole-hearted enthusiasm and disinterestedness should be an object- 

 lesson to Young China. 



In the pamphlet there is a description of the terrible damage and 

 loss of life caused by the disastrous floods of 1917 in Chihli. As 

 regards remedies the statements of five prominent engineers and men 

 who have been closely identified with conservancy work in Chihli 

 agree that reforesting is of paramount importance. Owing to the rivers 

 having already formed beds in many cases above the level of the 



