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the Rev. Father Fr. Juan Rodriguez, of the same order as the Author 

 of the book under review. This work does not seem to have ever been 

 printed, but numerous copies have been taken from it, the original 

 manuscript still existing in the Manila Agustinian Convent's Archives, 

 and is specially mentioned in the "Monitor de Paris" of 1794. Besides 

 this work, we know of one written in Spanish also, by the Rev. Father 

 Fr. Juan Masip, of the Dominican Order, published in the beginning 

 of the present century. 



With Father Gonzalez's work, the Spanish Missionary possesses an 

 extremely important adjunct to his vocabularies, which necessarily 

 must help the student. 



We regret though, that in our opinion, it would have been even 

 more useful to the cosmopolitan population in China, had the romanisa- 

 tion used therein been Wade's, which is generally adopted and found 

 the more easy to pronounce. Also we believe it would have improved 

 it, if it did not contain that interminable series of accounts, which 

 must necessarily puzzle the student. To demonstrate our opinion, we 

 have picked up half a dozen words from page 72 of the work, dealing 

 with adjectives : 



Gonzalez 

 Romanizes : Wade : 



heou-p'i hou p'i 



f ang-cho fang chuo 



leng-suei leng shui 



seng-ren sheng jen 



sin hsin 



siao hsiao 



As it can be seen, unless under the direct supervision of a native 

 teacher, no foreigner, not even a Spaniard, can correctly pronounce 

 these words, as given in the text. 



Nevertheless, in Father Gonzalez's book, we can find many an 

 excellent point and can unreservedly commend his work to the student. 



Juan Mencarini. 



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Poetry. A Magazine of Verse. Chicago. 



This number contains nine pages of translations of poems from 

 Chinese Written Wall Pictures. They are under the joint authorship 

 of Mrs. Florence Ayscough and Miss Amy Lowell. 



We have often wondered whether it would ever be possible to 

 bring out the beauties of Chinese poetry which is often in 'feet' and 

 'allusions,' Chinese poetry when translated appears abrupt or insipid : 

 and one wonders whether a genius would ever arise to put things right. 

 We cannot say that it has yet come but it may be on the way. In 

 many ways Mrs. Ayscough is a pioneer, and this idea of hers to 



