. Review of reviews and world's work. kalei-doscopic rapidity. The rudiments of empire hereAre plastic yet and warm;The chaos of a mighty worldIs rounding into form. Whereas the opening years of the sixteenthcentury saw the struggle for civilization ; of theseventeenth century, for religious liberty ; of theeighteenth century, for constitutional govern-ment ; of the nineteenth century, for politicalfreedom, the opening years of the twentiethcentury are witnessing what Lowell would havecalled One death-grapple in the darkness twixtOld systems and the Word. The tides of modern life are surging i
. Review of reviews and world's work. kalei-doscopic rapidity. The rudiments of empire hereAre plastic yet and warm;The chaos of a mighty worldIs rounding into form. Whereas the opening years of the sixteenthcentury saw the struggle for civilization ; of theseventeenth century, for religious liberty ; of theeighteenth century, for constitutional govern-ment ; of the nineteenth century, for politicalfreedom, the opening years of the twentiethcentury are witnessing what Lowell would havecalled One death-grapple in the darkness twixtOld systems and the Word. The tides of modern life are surging into themost distant lands. All barriers between na-tions are crumbling. The races are being drawntogether by the mighty cords of common knowl-edge and common interest. Each nation influ-ences to a greater or less degree all the others,and is in turn influenced by them. No manknoweth what the final outcome will be, but itis clear that we are on the threshold of a stu-pendous movement which may affect the futureof the whole human SOME PROMINENT CHINESE PERIODICALS. WHAT THE PEOPLE READ IN CHINA. LEARNING being the key to social positionand political power in China, as exempli-fied by the system of public examinations invogue for centuries, it may be taken for grantedthat the Chinese give much time to , with scholars this is a matter of neces-sity. The selection of officials by the system ofcivil examinations places such an immense pre-mium on book learning that parents of the hum-blest means never fail to give their sons someschooling to enable them to read—if nothinghigher be attempted—for their future better-ment. What the Chinese read is as varied as thegrades of society and the intellectual capacityof Chinese individuals. What do the officialsand scholars read ? What do the common peo-ple read ? What do the women read? Whatthese classes read depends upon their politicalopinions and religious beliefs. Moreover, thereis the choice between the vast field
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