SPREAD OF WESTERN EDUCATION IN CHINA.
Colleges have now been founded in fifteen of the provincial capitals, and primary and secondary schools, mechanical schools, agricultural colleges, and police and military schools are springing up on every hand. Akin to this is the wide diffusion of translations of Western literature, and the growing power and authority of the native press. A few years ago there were only seven newspapers, but now there are 157 daily, weekly, and monthly journals, in which public questions are discussed with courage and independence. Not long since a provincial editor gave a paragraph of statistics concerning Christian progress in India, heading it with the words, "Christ flourishing exceedingly;" while a leading article in a popular Shanghai daily lately urged the formation of charitable institutions on a more genuine basis than that beneath the existing charities of China.—Missionary Review.