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374 CHRISTIAN LITERATUREII.TABLE SHOWING INCOME AND CIRCULATIONOF THE TRACT SOCIETIES DURING J9J5J. DarrochTotalHuctefi/ Total Income ( it ctdution &i,l.cxJlfi .r.copies 3/c.r,TV. T. S. of North and Central ,..., 1 ,-China, Hankow ......... $10,083.44 3,092,145 $11,018.043.W5.70W3,20<> 2,424.47Chinese Tract Society, Shanghai 13, 102.32I,0-1-J,2H> <),0<>7.<>liWest China Tract Society,Chungking ......... ... 25J2S.53 2, 144,75s <i,531.j3(Keport covers IS months)South Fnkien Tract Society, ,- A1 -n Wi.,-> .,-.,,.>-An.oy ............... 4,701.50 90,353 3,734.35I.."1 " 11 Tl aCt 8 Ck>ty47S - {){) 1(i - 7 375.912 23(i94 a0 (MK)- 448 00Hongkong Bible,Tract andHook DepotS()<;,727.42 5, 101), 332 $33,020.1(5Ther year 1915 was an anxious one fortract societies atWorkwork in China. Coiitinentwide,devastating war in Europe threatenedthe source of supplies and forehoded decreased power ofproduction. The unrest in China which latterly spread toevery portion of the country might easily have led tocurtailed activity on the part of colporteurs and so torestricted sales.Neither of these gloomy apprehensions was realized.The income received from home was fully equal to that ofordinary years. The sales and circulation are the best onrecord except on extraordinary occasions when large grantsof books to pastors and evangelists were made from specialfunds. Every society except one reports an increasedcirculation and that one shows a slight increase in its salesover the previous year s record. Another society while