Asiatic Quarterly Review (Full Title: The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review, and Oriental and Colonial Record): Volume XIII, No. 26 [‎542r] (208/238)

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and Greek in Asia; The Scythian Expedition—The Ionian Revolt—
Persian Operations in Europe: b.c. 493 - 490 ; Marathon—The Entr’acte:
b.c. 490-480 —The March of the Persian Army : Preparations in Greece—
Thermopylae — Artemisium — Salamis — From Salamis to Plataea—The
Campaign of Plataea — Mykale and Sestos — The War as a Whole —
Herodotus as the Historian of the Great War. There are over thirty
illustrations and six maps. We can cordially recommend this work to
scholars and lovers of topography.
Hay Nisbet and Co., Ltd. ; 19 , Queen Street, Glasgow, 1901 .
14 . Russia : its Industries and Trade. Issued by order of State Secretary
S. J. De Witte, Imperial Russian Minister of Finance. The Glasgow
International Exhibition, 1901 . The object of this work is to make
known the trade, the commerce, the industries, and the vast capacities, of
the Russian Empire, so little known in Great Britain. With this view the
Minister of Finance State Secretary ordered the production of this work, in
connection with the recent International Exhibition in Glasgow, replying to
questions that may interest Great Britain, in order to promote mutual
commerce and industrial relationships. The volume treats of the social
and economical conditions, land transport, waterway communications,
workmen and labour laws, education, finance, home and foreign trade,
joint stock companies, cereals, flour, industrial plants, pastures, horticulture,
viticulture and wine-making, beet culture and sugar industry, the liquor
traffic, tobacco-growing, hops, live-stock, poultry, fisheries, mining and
metallurgy, and forests. There is also a magnificent map showing the
gigantic railways already opened and those under construction and pro
jected up to July 16 last. The progress of those railways is astonishing,
and the products and capacities of the vast and various regions through
which they pass are incalculable.
Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier ; Edinburgh and London.
15. The Lore of Cathay, or the Intellect of China, by W. A. P. Martin,
d.d., ll.d., President of the Chinese Imperial University, etc. It is over
thirty years since the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. of these lines last had the pleasure of meeting
Dr. Martin, who appears from the six photographs distributed over his
present book to be a man of evergreen physique, and to have little
changed in appearance since the gloomy days of the Tientsin massacre of
1870 . With the exception of two or three lengthy pilgrimages to the
shrine of Confucius in Shan Tung, and the city of the Jews in Ho Nan,
his experiences, like those of his contemporary, Sir Robert Hart, have
been chiefly centred around the dusty capital of Peking; and certainly no
one more than “ Hermeneutics ” (as he was playfully called in the sixties)
is more competent to write upon the above subject than the late President
of the Peking University.
By far the best chapters in this erudite book (which is, however, largely du
rechauffe from a previous set of publications) are those upon religion. Con-