In 1856 Tu Wen-hsiu rose up in rebellion and occupied Ta-li.…The conflict between the Han Chinese and the Moslems began over trifles. It has developed into a tragedy of mutual bloodletting because of poor management by the civil and military officials at Yung-ch'ang county and of Yunnan province. As a result, the mutual killing spread throughout Yunnan. The fault lies not with the people but with the officials.

THE following classes of fiber are employed for hairing dolls : human hair, mohair, cross-bred wool, horsehair, hog-bristle, unspun cotton. Human hair is only used for hairing dolls of an extremely expensive class.

The little volume of Professor Wacław Lednicki, who has already done so much in the domain of “Pushkinology,” contains three separate essays:[…]

Her presence was in some measure a restraint on the worthy divine, whose prolusion lasted the longer […]