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Show THROUGH HIDDEN' SHENSX. Francis H. Nichols has made a Journey Jour-ney through hidden lands that would have done credit to Landor. Shensi happens to He in 'that part of China where the foreigner is not welcome, where the stranger goeth at his peril. It was in Slngan, the capital of Shensi, that the Dowager Empress found refuge in her recent enforced exile. It is in Shensi that numberless missionaries have been murdered. It is in Shensi that one must go under imperial protection- If one would come out alive. And ven then there Is grave danger. Mr. Nichols went as the special emissary emis-sary of the Christian Herald of New York, through which a fund was raised to relieve the famine sufferers. Apart from the agent of the fund be was assigned as-signed to investigate the general condition con-dition of the people. The work at hand entailed a trip covering fifteen hundred miles . throughout the empire, during which trip he had an excellent opportunity opportu-nity of studying the people and the country. The book he has turned out is one Of the most exhaustive written on the subject. sub-ject. It is absolutely without bias and alms only to present things as the author au-thor found them. In many particulars It throws an entirely new light on the Chinese people and opens up a new trend of thought to the student of the people of the East. (Charles Scrlbner's Sons.) . . |