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Old Highways in China. By Isabelle Williamson. (Religious Tract Society.)—Mrs.

Williamson has been engaged for many years in missionary work in China. This volume contains some of her more recent experiences, not so much of mission.work as of travel, but of travel undertaken with the object of evangelisation in view. We have records of four journeys made at intervals during the ten years 1873-1882; and very interesting these records are. The interior of China, the genuine life of the people, as opposed to that which is to be seen at the seaports, constitute a subject of which little is known. This book, written as it is by an acute and experienced observer, and in a pleasant and lively style, is certainly well worth reading.