17 AUGUST 1889, Page 17

THE ELECTRIC LIGHT IN SHANGHAI.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:'] SIB,—In your review of M. de Windt's book, you seem puzzled by a very singular misconception. " Shanghai," you say, " the dirtiest city in the Chinese Empire, yet, strange to say, lighted by electricity." The city of Shanghai is not so lighted ; it is the European settlement of Shanghai, the cleanest and handsomest town east of the Cape, lying on the banks of the Huangpu—far outside the walls of the pestiferous native city— where the electric light is used in the theatres, clubs, shops,