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demonstrate a wide connection. The reviewer once had occasion to 

 enquire into the work of the Japanese in Manchuria. Here, as every- 

 where, they are equipping their people most thoroughly in the com- 

 mercial knowledge of the country. If they are not doing much for 

 others they are missing no avenue in mastering the knowledge of that 

 country's resources for themselves. It was found that by commercial 

 day and night schools, Japanese boys and young men were taught most 

 carefully and thoroughly in everything pertaining to the commercial 

 possibilities of Manchuria. As the British merchant has not organized 

 any such training schools for his nationals it is hoped that this 

 Gazetteer will be the first step in such a direction. In itself it will 

 offer a liberal education to the commercial student, but w T e hope it will 

 also stimulate British merchants to develop their plans for a better 

 organization of business in China. Given a proper and suitable table 

 business people and commercial students could spend profitable hours 

 poring over the maps and letterpress of this volume : and as the 

 panorama of people, sources of wealth, agriculture, industries and 

 communications of this great land began to unrol themselves before 

 the mind it would more and more offer unparalleled attractions to the 

 merchant, traveller, student, missionary. Recently a lady came to 

 enquire of the writer as to sources of information on the Canals of 

 China. Having exhausted one's knowledge easily the lady was recom- 

 mended to consult the Gazetteer to which she replied that it had already 

 been done, and that this work really had supplied the only information 

 that she had been able to get on the subject ! Thus the help that the 

 Gazetteer had given to this lady over an out-of-the-way subject indicated 

 its scope and utility to the general public as well as the business people. 

 It is one of the most comprehensive works ever published in China. 

 It opens with a General Introduction full of valuable information on 

 commerce. It covers a wide field : geography, politics, engineering, 

 and so on : a succinct conspectus is given of many fields. This is 

 followed by a section given to a Geographical and Economic survey of 

 China : and then a section follows dealing with the Provinces of China, 

 giving a brief description of each of the 18 with a list of their pro- 

 ducts, agriculture, minerals, and so on. Then follows an index, giving 

 the place-name and province both in Chinese and English and its 

 position N.E. It would have been of great advantage if the map 

 number had been inserted. As it is, given only the name of the 

 province, the place is not easily found since the maps are not alph- 

 abetically arranged. 



The Forest Conditions in China is written by Mr. Norman Shaw. 

 After his paper we have a list of the Changed Place-names, followed 

 by a summary of values of Latitudes and Longitudes. 



