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340 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.the councils of the Empire, and an agency, like theTract Society, which leavens with Christian ideas thethought of the youth of this progressive part of China,is doing a work, the magnitude of which cannot be overestimated. The Canton Society expended last year$1,600 in its work for the Cantonese.The Manchurian Tract Society, with its headquartersin Mukden, lias one of the most promising and interestingfields in the whole of China. Manchuria, recentlyswept by the great revival, isopen from end to end tothe colporteur and preacher as few provinces are open.Mongolia, with two to three million inhabitants, iswithin the radius of this society s field of operations,but scarcely a line of Christian teaching lias beenpublished in the language of the Mongols. It wouldseem to be a comparatively easy task to secure a manwho could translate some of the best tracts we have inChinese into Mongolian and send them out on theirmission of usefulness to the tribes which now sit indarkness in the land of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane.The Manchurian Tract Society expended last year$1,350 in the work of the tract distribution, for itconfines itself to this branch and draws its supplies ofliterature from the other and larger societies.The circulation and expenditure of the various tractsocieties at work in China may be tabulated as follows :Chinese Tract Society, Shanghai. Circulation, 478,000 copies,12,141,400 pages ; expenditure, $15,609.Central China Tract Society, Hankow. Circulation, 2,976,777issues ;expenditure, $21,000.West China Tract Society, Chungking. Circulation, 1,509,528issues; expenditure, $10,500.North China Tract Society, Peking. Circulation, 25, 386 books,5,000,000 pages ; expenditure, $7,431.68.South China Tract Society, Atnoy. Circulation, 85,068 issues ;expenditure, $4,674.North Fukien Tract Society, Foochow. Circulation, 110,676issues ;expenditure, $2,613.Hongkong Tract Society. Circulation 34,430 issues ; expenditure, $1,038.