Cina e Giappone

Abstract

THE opening up of China to foreign commerce has naturally created a demand for books dealing with the country and its inhabitants considered from every aspect; their religion, their treatment of missionaries, their laws, their secret societies, their educational systems, their army, their monetary systems, postal arrangements, banks, theatres, and public institutions generally. This book is a traveller's account of the country, with no pretensions to be regarded as scientific; indeed, in reading the book with a view to matters of direct scientific interest, we have found nothing more noteworthy from this aspect than the description of the Chinese methods of performing calculations and of teaching arithmetic in schools. In connection with Japan, attention is called to the serious competition on the part of the Japanese, which threatens to undermine European commerce in the East; and the translator, as president of an Association for trading with the East, corroborates this view.

Cina e Giappone.

By E. von Hesse Wartegg. Translated into Italian by Captain Manfredo Camperio. Pp. 536; illustrated by 168 woodblocks, 72 plates, facsimiles of manuscripts, and one map. (Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1900.)