The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-18

ported by all the Protestant SeCts.
which is preparing next text books for
the schools. At some Of the mission
airy stations they are making school
museums including such things ae
stuffed birds and animals, Mounted
fishes. electrical machines, bloges ana
model railways. They have printed
charts of the Chinese provinces. with
the principal industries and resources
marked upon them. and have inaugu-
rated new methods of teaching tho
people. Indeed, the work which the
missionaries nave done cannot be over
estimated, and the situation hero Just
now is such that money spent upon
missions viii return a thousand-fold.
n Carnegie Of China.
In this connection, q bright wd-
man clerk of the mission book store
OF Shanghai said to me today:
What China needs more than any
thing else is q system Of circulating
libraries. which shall contain the sim
pier books Of our modern literature.
including the Scriptures, concOrdances
and the western classics. These pcO-
pie are pining for the new learning:
but they are unexpectedly poor ans
annot afford to buy books. The II
nese women want them. In every
community clubs are already cstaL-
lished, where the women como to
gether weekly or daily TO gossip and
talk. II they could have such books
they would be read aloud at these
meetings and a great educational
movement might thus be Instituted.
AS to the Chinese TRANSACTIONS. they
are cheap. The concordance of the
Scriptures costs less than 20 cents
gold. and there are few books of any
kind that sell as high as a dollar"
1 cite this conversation as a sug-
gestion for some rich American who
Eould like to be known as the Cur
neSie Of China.
New Chinese Literature.
Ii Inauguration OF the new school
system and the new civilization is
bringing in translations of the most
popular books Of the western world.
Today two hundred and tWenty-one
novels, origi ,ally written in English,
French or German, are in circulation.
They have been translated into Chi
nese, and the demand for them is in
l creaslng. III one year fifty-seven such
novels were Issued. They included
translations of Uncle Toms Cabin"
Jules Verne's Voyage to the Moon"
and Charles Lambs Tales From
shakespeare.' One Of the most pom
ular of the new issues is Conan
Doyle's Memoirs Of Sherlock
{ Holiness and another is Robinson
Crusoe." Among TRANSACTIONS from
the French are Les Miserab1es'' and
"Manon Lescaut,' and the most popu~
4 6"1 A oIo1l CS L I'll
other novels OF Sir Walter Scott. These
works are published on cheap paper:
they are sold by booksellers in the
various cities, some bringing as little
as 10 cents apiece. One Of the re-
cent TRANSACTIONS OF this nation sold
that within a year: another had a cir
culation Of $4,000 copies within
eighteen months.
In addition to novels, some heavy
| works such as Darwin's "OrigIn OF
: Species" Spencer's Evolution" and
NILS Essay on Liberty" are heing
published, and the new constitutions
mas created q deman for treatises
} OF poltlcs aud parliamentary law.
br. Z. II. Tenney formerly head OF
) the chinese University at Tientsin, and
now the Chinese secretary of orr le-
cation at Picking. has published a
number of school books, which are
: In general use, including readers,
primers and biographies. and Mr.. Wy
J ne. or the London Mission, has pre-
} pared a complete series of text books
ana mathmatics in the Chinese for the
japanese translators.
A large number Of the new traps1a.
uons come from the Japanese. The
"i''ten languages Of Japan and ChinA
are somewhat SIMILAR. and the Japa-
HeSe scnoiar learns quickly to speak.
read and write the Chinese. In the
commercial Press editorial room a
large number Of Japanese men are
employed as translators. and I find
'apahese teachers in all the Chinese
| euucaltoIal centers. Much of the new
9chool furniture has been made in
Japan ana q large numbe OF the
modern maps and charts.
me Japanese teachers VIII work
. io"er Salarles than other foreign
90, ana TINS IS one reason for their
; employment. AS a rule, they are not
,loroush, and the probability is that
.hey VIII eventually be replaced by
| Alnerlcans, t1nglish1nen or Germans. |
ruoh LOT the steady increase in the
!, number of American teachers TborE
t are hundreds of Chinese now stndvine