... that the American born professor tried to look as though he enjoyed it. Our contemporary falls into a slight error when it speaks of Professor Hearn as American-born. Although he has spent many years in America, and most of his readers think ...

... points to a dislike of criticism that is highly characteristic. The Pekin Syndicate continues to be a power in China, and it speaks well for its influence in both East and West that Li HUNG-CHANG is reported to have invested some $40,000 in deferred shares ...

... Memorandum which was presented,at a recent meeting of the Finance Committee, regarding the estimates for Public Works. Broadly speaking, the Memorandum is a protest against starving public works—which must obviously be due to official interference, inasmuch ...

... official presence of the Emperor at the Yokohama races, the bestowal of a Japanese order on a prominent foreign resident: all speak of material progress from the early days of foreign intercourse; though it must not be overlooked that in educational matters ...

... Tong-King, and the total surplus for these four provinces for 1898 amounted to $3,713,783. These amounts, so far as amounts go, speak for themselves; but as we have no means of judging what proportion these surplus amounts bear to the total revenue, or from ...

... the fact that a lady put down her name for one of the grins to be imported for the next meeting of the Selangor Turf Club, speaks of an open mind and a freedom from domestic cares that must be the envy of many an overwrought housewife in the old country ...

... autumn of 1875. The succeeding New Year's Day was known as the first day of the first month of the first year of Kwangsii. If speak of decades instead of centuries, the Emperor's first decade did not terminate until the last day of the last month of the tenth ...

... only other lines calling for notice here are those from Sungehow to Nanning and from Tong-King to Yunnan. It will be time to speak of these when they are in a more advanced state of development. That railways will eventually benefit China is, of course, ...

... on further proroguing Parliament to Jan. 30, when the Houses will meet for the despatch of business. Mr. Brodrick, M.P., speaking at a Primrose League meeting in All Saints' Parish-room, Finchley-road, last night, said that the Government had given an ...

... given the generals an absolutely free hand. Ho ridiculed foreign prophecies that the dissolution of the Empire had begun. Speaking on 10th inst. at the Manchester Conservative Club, Mr. Balfour defended the War Office from the criticisms to which the ...

... of the year's crop reaches the coast before the winter closes the rivers. Railway corncommunication can alone remedy this. Speaking of the railways now in course of construction, Mr. Holm/ says the lines will bring about an enormous development in the trade ...

... their lowest point of the year i n January, and, notwithstanding two or three short periods of relapse, they have, broadly i speaking, risen steadily and attained th e ir highest point n December, having established advances of from 20 to 40 per cent, on ...