. Review of reviews and world's work. reasons for Rus-sian, German, andFrench dealings withChina, influences hesums up in the ex-pression, the Conti-nental Block. Belgi-um he calls the lackeyof these continentalpowers. British influ-ence he fears is on thewane, and it is to arouse British attention to this al-leged waning influence that he devotes much of his bestwriting. American power and prestige, he believes, ison the increase. Japan he counts as the future drill-master of the East. There are several appendices, com-prising the texts of treaties, a number of other officialdocuments, and an
. Review of reviews and world's work. reasons for Rus-sian, German, andFrench dealings withChina, influences hesums up in the ex-pression, the Conti-nental Block. Belgi-um he calls the lackeyof these continentalpowers. British influ-ence he fears is on thewane, and it is to arouse British attention to this al-leged waning influence that he devotes much of his bestwriting. American power and prestige, he believes, ison the increase. Japan he counts as the future drill-master of the East. There are several appendices, com-prising the texts of treaties, a number of other officialdocuments, and an analysis of the purely military his-tory of the Russo-Japanese War up to May 1, last. Another book on Tibet. This time it is by OscarTerry Crosby, and is entitled Tibet and Turkestan(Putnams). Mr. Crosby, it will be remembered, wasthe Englishman who took that memorable journey ofexploration in 1903 through central Asia, with Anginieur, of the French Army. This vol-ume is the collected experiences of Mr. Crosby during. )k i^^ DR. HENRY CLAY TRUMBULL,. (Late editor of the Sunday-SchoolTimes.) 254 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS. this and several other journeys through central is illustrated from photographs, and contains severalexcellent maps. In a number of appendices are to befound the texts of a number of treaties between GreatBritain and Tibet and Kussia and Tibet. The impressions of a business man, obtained duringa business trip in the Far East, cast into narrativeform,—this is the description Mr. Ernest F. G. Hatch,, himself gives to his book, Far-Eastern Impres-sions, just issued by Hutchinson in London and Mc-Clurg in Chicago. The book, which is illustrated, andwhich contains several valuable maps, treats of Japan,China, and Korea, and sets forth some exceedinglyinteresting data about business opportunities in theOrient. Japan and the Japanese as Seen by Foreigners,—prior to the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War—has been edited b
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