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MISSION PRESSES. 357and foreign style binding, stereotyping, etc. The outputfrom December, 1905, to January, 1910, was 8,166,600pages; during 1909 it was 3,523,452 pages. Outsideof original equipment and salary of superintendent thepress is self-supporting (including provision for repairsand replacing of worn out equipment).THE HINGHWA MISSION PRESS.This Press (in Hinghwa city, Fukien province)is identified with the Board of Foreign Missions of theMethodist Episcopal Church, and was started in asmall way in 1896. It has so grown that nine workmengive their entire time and twenty student workmengive part time the latter thus ; being enabled to earna portion or all of the cost of their education. Theoutput last year was nearly two million pages.The chief work done is printing a semi-monthlynewspaper in Romanized also one in Chinese;character ;the Bible, tracts, and text-books in Romanized ;alsoSunday school literature.The Press is practically self-supporting, althoughgrants have been received for printing tracts andnewspapers whilst the American Bible Society has;published the Romanized Bible. The superintendentis Rev. W. N. Brevvster, D.D.ENGLISH PRESBYTERIAN MISSION PRESS,SWATOW.Work was commenced in 1880 with a hand pressand a font of type sent out as a gift from friends inEngland. It was set up in the boarding-school andthe school boys taught to use it. In 1885 a freshfont of Roman type was added, and in 1893 anotherfont was purchased. The plant of the Press includesstereotyping apparatus, book-binding outfit and twoprinting machines. The number of printers employed