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THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF CHINA. By Mingchien Joshua Bau. (Nisbet.

18s. net.)—This enlarged edition of Mr. Bau's excellent book includes the results of the Washington Conference so far as they affect China. In a new chapter Mr. Bau discusses the Root principles 'incorporated in Article I.

of the Nine-Power Treaty as standards of action in relation to China. He holds that they " constitute a Magna Carta for China " and safeguard her place as a sovereign nation in the world.