Woman Workers of the Orient. By Margaret E. Burton. Revised
by E. I. M. Boyd. (United Council for Missionary Education. 2s. 6d. net.)—This little book, by an American writer, gives an instructive account of the changes which are taking place in the position of women in the East, under the influence of Western ideas and of modern industrialism. There are some striking pages on the Japanese factory system, which is at much the same stage as the British factory system of 1830-40. The women of Turkey and Persia, we are told, are beginning to demand more freedom and to show more interest in public affairs. In China there is a Woman's Suffrage Society : the first item on its programme is the abolition of the barbarous practice of foot-binding. The book has been revised so as to show how British women missionaries are helping to guide these remarkable movements.
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