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schools supply abundant information on the personnel and the work 

 done. It is also possible to compare relative fees and board, and get 

 a knowledge of the number of students in the various institutions. 

 As one turns over the pages of the book one is struck with the vast 

 amount of scholarship and learning in this land. For the most part 

 these men and women have come here on pilgrimages of good will. 

 The flower of culture is here in China doing good work — a sign of the 

 philanthropy of the world and the goodwill of man. We cannot but 

 look on this as a great stimulating power in China — and as we read 

 of the medical propaganda in its efforts to alleviate the burdens of 

 men : the new colleges for women betokening their emancipation from 

 the yoke of illiteracy, the mind is filled with the possibilities of the 

 effects of these great factors on the future generations of China. 

 These betoken a new China and a new force in the world. 



The long lists of schools and names are really not dry reading, 

 but each is a burning spot destined to awaken some sleeping force 

 and liberate it for the service of men. 



The list of school and individuals is by no means complete. There 

 is room for emendation and addition. But it is good enough and correct 

 enough to be essential to all educators and many others. M. 



The Pageant of Peking. By Donald Mennie. With an Introduction 



by Putnam Weale. A. S. Watson & Co., Shanghai. 

 In a brief history of Peking dating from the time of the Khitan 

 Tartars who more than a thousand years ago left their native 

 Manchuria to settle in Northern China, down to the present day, 

 Mr. Putnam Weale has traced step by step the romantic story of 

 this wonderful City. 



Perhaps in his desire for accuracy the author has sacrificed some- 

 what of the glamour of his subject, yet in a pithy manner he has 

 laid before his readers a comprehensive survey of the history of Peking 

 and he is to be congratulated on the manner in which he has condensed 

 so vast a subject into so small a compass. 



In quoting Marco Polo Mr. Putnam Weale has added greatly to 

 the interest of his narrative, though the old Venetian traveller is far 

 from accurate and occasionally borrows from Pliny, and paints a 

 vivid picture of the City's glorious past. 



For Mr. Mennie's plates there can be nothing but praise, and 

 it is not too much to say that they are exquisite in conception and 

 perfect in execution. 

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