A CHINAMAN ON CHINA OF TO-DAY.
SAID KANG YU WAU recently, the president of the Chinese Reform Association: "China is no longer in the dark ages. She has already reached the point where Japan was only twenty years ago, after years and years of endeavor. This is not because the Japanese were slow in learning, but rather because they were but pioneers. They cooked, we ate. "We have now, for example, more than 20,000 Chinese students pursuing advanced modern courses of study. As to common schools, some 5,000 have been started in the one province of Canton. There are now 4,000,000 Chinese who can speak English. Our courts are being remodeled after the English system. The number of books we have translated into Chinese—text books, technical works, and treatises mostly—indicates how extensively the progressive movement is spreading. We have thus appropriated to our use over 10,000 American, English, and European works. The Boxer troubles are over forever."—Missionary Review of the World.