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""""344 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.read anything more vulgar ; and, moreover, it is theone language common to educated Chinese whereverfound, as well as being the classical language of Japanand Korea. Thus it affords many facilities to the missionary journalist.On the other hand, it is not understood by the bulkof our intelligent church members, even those who canreadily read what is written more closely to the actuallanguage they speak. Their spoken language, exceptin the southwestern and southern provinces, is themandarin dialect." In the southwestern and southernprovinces several more ancient dialects are spoken ;themost widespread of which is Cantonese. Were "mandarin" the language of the whole Empire, all churchperiodicals would be in "mandarin" (with perhaps alittle "easy wen-li" here and there), but as there arethese differing dialects, the periodicals for missionmembers are, as a fact, variously in easy wen-li, inmandarin, or (as one of them) in romanised colloquial.Up till 1890, however, all the Christian periodicals ofChina were in literary or else easy wen-li.The first Christian newspaper in the Chinese language was started by Drs. Morrison and Milne at Malaccain 1815. The next essay of Christian journalism wasthat of Dr. Y. J. Allen, who published the ChurchNews and Globe Magazine at Shanghai in 1868. Then,from this distinctively religious paper, he branchedforth into a more general style, changing his paperinto the Wan Kuo Kung Pao, or Review of the Times,"which became the chief literary link between missionaries and mandarins and the scholarly Chinese in general until Dr. Allen s death at the end of 1907.During that year this "Review" was 112 pages inbulk, 20 cents in price, with a circulation of 1,850 copiesmonthly, but many more readers than that number, asmost of the copies were lent around a little readingcircle. The one item in its contents, which was by thattime virtually superseded, was its monthly summary of

""CHRISTIAN PERIODICALS. 345telegraphic news. This had once been the sole sourceof information for the scholars of China concerningworld-happenings, but had for some years been anticipated by the translated telegrams in the Chinesedailies. The Review of the Times," was coloured uyDr. Allen s own strong personality, and among hiscontributors were such (deceased) worthies as Dr.Edkins, Dr. Ernst Faber, Drs. Williamson and Muirhead,besides scholars of prominence in the China fieldto-day. Dr. Timothy Richard and Dr. D. MacGillivrayhave each been deputy editors of this Review" duringthe furloughs of Dr. Allen.The one magazine to follow on the lines of the Review of the Times," as a general and Christian journalfor officials aud literati (rather than a religious paperfor church-members), has been the C. L- S. weekly,the Ta Tung Pao ("magazine of broad principles").This was started by W. A. Cornaby at the ChineseNew Year of 1904, enlarged during a year s deputyeditorship by Kv an Morgan 7 in 1907, and has since been abooklet of 38 pa^es, illustrated ; price, $3 per annum, including inland postage number of words, about 20,000 ; ;proportion of native contributions (except,news), aboutone-tenth ; circulation, about 3,500, of which over 2,000are snbscribed-for by various high officials. It is readby several of the imperial princes, the grand councillors,provincial viceroys and governors, officials and scholarsin all the provinces, and by educated Chinese in Australia, Borneo, Brazil, British Guiana, Burma, Canada,Formosa, Japan, Java, Korea, Malaya, New Zealand,Penang, Sandwich Islands, vSingapore, Transvaal andseveral cities of the United States.Then, as a link between journals intended for outsiders, and those intended for church-members, therecome two illustrated magazines which have been popularboth within and without the church. These are theYueh Pao (" monthly magazine and the Pina T u Sin")Pao(" pictorial news magazine"), called in English re-

""CHRISTIAN PERIODICALS. 345telegraphic news. This had once been the sole sourceof information for the scholars of China concerningworld-happenings, but had for some years been anticipated by the translated telegrams in the Chinesedailies. The Review of the Times," was coloured uyDr. Allen s own strong personality, and among hiscontributors were such (deceased) worthies as Dr.Edkins, Dr. Ernst Faber, Drs. Williamson and Muirhead,besides scholars of prominence in the China fieldto-day. Dr. Timothy Richard and Dr. D. MacGillivrayhave each been deputy editors of this Review" duringthe furloughs of Dr. Allen.The one magazine to follow on the lines of the Review of the Times," as a general and Christian journalfor officials aud literati (rather than a religious paperfor church-members), has been the C. L- S. weekly,the Ta Tung Pao ("magazine of broad principles").This was started by W. A. Cornaby at the ChineseNew Year of 1904, enlarged during a year s deputyeditorship by Kv an Morgan 7 in 1907, and has since been abooklet of 38 pa^es, illustrated ; price, $3 per annum, including inland postage number of words, about 20,000 ; ;proportion of native contributions (except,news), aboutone-tenth ; circulation, about 3,500, of which over 2,000are snbscribed-for by various high officials. It is readby several of the imperial princes, the grand councillors,provincial viceroys and governors, officials and scholarsin all the provinces, and by educated Chinese in Australia, Borneo, Brazil, British Guiana, Burma, Canada,Formosa, Japan, Java, Korea, Malaya, New Zealand,Penang, Sandwich Islands, vSingapore, Transvaal andseveral cities of the United States.Then, as a link between journals intended for outsiders, and those intended for church-members, therecome two illustrated magazines which have been popularboth within and without the church. These are theYueh Pao (" monthly magazine and the Pina T u Sin")Pao(" pictorial news magazine"), called in English re-

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