Show WANTED A LIBRA LIBRARY Y FOR CHINA Pile Episcopal mission in China is if trying to es establish establish tb- tb lish a library at which is opposite and miles up the river liver It is urged that the Chinese are a n people who reverence reveren e learning learning learning learn learn- ing j they have adopted our school system our text textbooks textbooks textbooks books and our methods of teaching and still there is not a public library in all China hina Our thought would be that a library in a Chinese Chines city would be a great thing provided the people could read the books But Bat what good Would be a library in this city if all th the works works' w w were re to be printed print print- ed d in Spanish or 01 Russian or Turkish 1 And how many of the books booT which are found in ordinary libraries libraries libraries libra libra- ries have been translated into the Chinese language 1 If Ii some gifted people say such men as was Minister Wu could be employed employ d to read and translate the books' books to audiences of Chinese then the library would count but how hov many Chinese even of the educated ed ed educated educated classes in the center of China could be benefited benefited bene bene- by a library printed mostly in English 1 Of course the members of f the he mission in China I know what they want but what proportion of the native people could enjoy such sucha a library even if it were ere to be established |