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On page 36 begins a marked feature of the Gazetteer, the Pro- 

 duction maps of China. These must have entailed immense labour, and 

 should prove of great value. The graphs are really marvels of work. 

 The series opens with the New Productions map of China. In this small 

 compass we have a bird's-eye view of the mineral and other production 

 of the land. It may be said in passing that there is no indication of 

 the hill near Kuo Hsien where gold is supposed to exist. The Roths- 

 childs were interested in this once. The Index to this Map is also 

 full : but it should be pointed out Arrow-root is not a speciality of 

 Yenchowfu Shantung. Hangchow is renowned for this both for quality 

 and quantity. Besides it is grown in almost every province. Vast 

 fields of it may be seen almost anywhere. The same may be said of 

 Indigo. Shensi is noted for it. 



Half the contents of this monumental work has not been told. In 

 a work of such scope and great merit ; and in view of the imperfect 

 statistics existing of the country it is not surprising that the work is 

 not entirely free from errors and omissions. Space will only permit us 

 to point out a few of these : for instance Chiang Chou is one of the 

 leading towns of South Shansi and not of Shensi as given (p. 34). 

 San Yuan (in Shensi) and Chiao Ch'eng (in Shansi), one being the great 

 banking and piece goods centre of Shensi and Kansu, the other one 

 being the leading fur-curing centre in China are not mentioned. 

 South Shansi has the great and celebrated salt lakes in Yiin Ch'eng, 

 but no mention is made of these : whereas Shensi is said to have salt 

 as one of its great industries when as a matter of fact the salt of Shensi 

 is unimportant. M. 



Totemic Traces Among the Indo-Chinese" (Reprinted from 

 "the Journal of American Folk-Lore, " October-December, 1917). 

 Sous ce titre, M. Berthold Laufer a rassemble plusieurs donnees de 

 grand interet pour l'ethnographie des peuples sino-tibetains. Ces 

 donnees se referent aux liens, attestes par le tabou, la tradition ou 

 l'onomastique, qui rattachent certaines tribus ou families a telle ou 

 telle classe d'animaux, de vegetaux ou d'objets. Les groupements 

 ethniques envisages sont les Tai noirs du Haut Ton Kin, les Lolo du 

 Yunnan meridional, les Hei-miao du Kouei-tcheou, les Man alias Yao 

 de la frontiere sino-annamite, les Sia du Fu-kien, les anciens Ai-lao du 

 Nan-tchao, les anciens K'iang occidentaux du Kan-su et les Tangut, 

 enfin les chinois eux-memes. La documentation utilisee comprend 

 d'une part, des sources chinoises, d'autre part, des travaux francais 

 publies tant a Hanoi qu'a Paris, et un article de M. A. Henry dans le 

 journal de "1' Anthropological Institute." 

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