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""MISSION SCHOOLS FOR MEN AND BOYS. 105groilp is so nearly allied to the Kuanhua that scholarsand the more intelligent business men of Kiangsuand Chekiaug find little difficulty, after a few weekspractice, in understanding good speakers of Kuanhua,and they easily acquire some degree of efficiency inspeaking it themselves. This similarity of dialectsmakes it comparatively easy to unite in educationalschemes, and it has been found quite practical to establish union institutions at such a centre as Nanking,with a good prospect of drawing large numbers ofstudents from the neighbouring district of the Wudialects.In this east central district are to be found a largeproportion of the mission educational institutions ofbrief notice of theChina, and we may begin by giving afour institutions which are known asUNIVERSITIES.This name may be, to some extent, prophetic,but it has been applied to these institutions because theyare planning for regular university work, and alreadyembrace, in addition to the college of arts, departmentsof theology and medicine. Although these departmentsare very small at present, they are growing in efficiencyand extensiveness from year to year. We give below afew facts concerning these universities :Name. Location. Founded. Students.University of Nanking Nanking 1888 420 35St. John s University Shanghai 1879 332 119Boone University Wuchang 1871 302 45Soochow University Soochow 1901 162 25i, 216 224Three of the universities are denominational. St.John s University and Boone University are connectedwith the American Episcopal Mission, and SoochowUniversity is connected with the Mission of the Southern