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errors or enable him to rectify them. Truth, truth alone mattered to 

 him ; no effort seemed too great to him to attain it. . . . 



"Chavannes was not only the first sinologue of our days; by his 

 powers of lucidity, order and simplicity, by the perspicacity of in- 

 tuition combined with the stubborn researches of erudition he continued 

 the lineage of savants as Abel Remusat and Eugene Burnouf." 



IN MEMORY OF ARTHUR EVANS MOULE. 



Many of our readers will have heard with sincere sorrow of the 

 death of Archdeacon A. E. Moule, who was for many years a well 

 known, loved, and respected figure both at Shanghai and at Ningpo. 



Arthur Moule, sixth son of the late Henry Moule, was born at 

 Fordington Vicarage near Dorchester on 10th April, 1836, and like his 

 brothers, of whom the two survivors are Charles, President of Corpus 

 Christi College, Cambridge, and Handley, Bishop of Durham, was 

 educated at first at home. Unlike his brothers he did not go to 

 Cambridge, but continued his education at a College in Malta and 

 then at the Church Missionary Society's College at Islington. In 

 later life however the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred on him the 

 degrees of B.D. (1881) and D.D. (1912) in recognition of his very 

 distinguished missionary and literary work. In 1861 he married Agnes 

 the daughter of J. H. Bernau, one of the noble band of pioneer 

 missionaries who worked under the C. M. S. in its early years, and 

 himself joined the C. M. S., reaching Ningpo in August 1861 when the 

 T'ai-p'ing rebellion was at its height. He was in the city of Ningpo 

 on the eve of its capture (8th December, 1861) and in the Settlement 

 during its occupation by the rebels till May the next year. This excit- 

 ing beginning to his life in China made a lasting impression on hi« 

 mind, and to the end he delighted to tell the story of those far off 

 days. He stayed at Ningpo, with one furlough (1869-1871) until 1876, 

 when for about two years he was put in charge of the mission work at 

 Hangchow. During those two years he made the acquaintance of a 

 man named Chou, and through him began the mission work in the 

 District of Chu-chi, one of the most interesting and successful fields in 

 the Chekiang mission. While at home in 1879 he was offered the new 

 bishopric of Mid-China, formed out of the vast diocese then vacant by 

 the death of Bishop Russell. With a fine sense of propriety which was 

 at once characteristically Christian, Chinese, and his own, he refused 

 to be Bishop of a diocese in which his elder brother would be a simple 



