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THE important events of the last few years in Annam, Tonquin, and Cambodia have given rise to a quantity of literature in France, relating to this region, which has now reached enormous proportions. French periodicals of all kinds are full of papers relating to it, and new books on the same subject have been issued in many scores during the past three years. Every department of research is represented—historical, scientific, literary, antiquarian, industrial, commercial, &c. If this great flood represents, as it undoubtedly does, the keen interest taken by the French people in the countries with which they have now so close a connection, it is none the less embarrassing to foreign readers who desire to obtain a general and accurate survey of Indo-China. Amid the host of works, good, bad, and indifferent, now issuing from the French press on this region, and on every conceivable topic connected with it, it is difficult to select one which contains all that is wanted by the ordinary cultivated person, who desires to have some knowledge of countries which have been the theatre of events that have moved Europe profoundly. At last MM. Bouinais and Paulus have produced such a book. Capt. Bouinais has served long in Tonquin, and is actually a member of the Frontier Delimitation Commission, and Prof. Paulus, of L'Ecole Turgot, though, we believe, he has never visited the country, has made it a special study, and has laboured to popularise a knowledge of it in France. The two authors have already published a very much larger work on the same subject, of which the present one appears to be an abridgment intended for wider circulation and more general information.
La France en Indo-Chine.
Par A. Bouinais et A. Paulus. (Paris: Challamel Ainé, 1886.)
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La France en Indo-Chine . Nature 35, 221 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035221b0
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