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Appendix III will be found especially useful. It is a brief account 

 of the beliefs of Chinese Moslems. There is first an outline of the 

 history of the entrance of Islam into China. One would wish that 

 a paragraph had been added to combat the false idea held by some 

 that Mohammedanism was planted in China in the 6th, 7th and 8th 

 Centuries and since then has grown apart from the rest of the Moslem 

 world. There have undoubtedly been frequent additions to the 

 number of Moslems in this land throughout the Centuries, whether of 

 merchants, soldiers, captives or refugees, and it is probably as much 

 due to this fact as to any inherent power in the religion itself, that 

 Islam was not long ago swallowed up as was Nestorianism. 



The remainder of this appendix consists chiefly of most useful 

 quotations from Chinese-Moslem books illustrating their beliefs con- 

 cerning God, angels, prophets, sacred books, Jesus Christ, sin, the 

 practice of Islam, etc. 



The general reader can hardly fail to be interested by the book 

 and its quaint style. And it should certainly have a place in the 

 library of every student of Mohammedanism in China. Even those 

 who possess the original will find the translation useful. It gives a 

 number of names that are not easily guessed from the Chinese 

 Characters that represent them, notes that correct Liu Chih's 

 Chronology, and appendices that are of considerable value. 



M. E. B. 



The Educational Directory and Year Book of China, 1921. 



Shanghai : Edward Evans & Sons, Ltd. 

 This excellent handbook has made its annual appearance. It is 

 quite as good if not superior to its predecessors. It contains full 

 information on all matters pertaining to foreign education and to some 

 extent refers also to Chinese Education under the Chinese Government. 

 It opens with a review of the leading events in the year and affords a 

 conspectus of important matters. This is most informing and 

 valuable. It would have been still better if the subjects had been 

 more definitely grouped together. An example will show what is 

 meant by this. On one page the appointment of Mr. Scott to the 

 Shantung bishopric is given : and the consecration of another bishop — 

 Bishop Mosher is given a few pages further on. It would have been 

 better if both were given consecutively. This criticism applies to 

 other subjects too. Nevertheless the narrative is very excellent even 

 in its present form. 



The section dealing with the Universities and their courses of 

 studies is excellent for reference. And the courses and staff of the 



