SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919. Compiled and edited by John V. A. MacMurray. 2 vols. (H. Milford.)—This substantial collection of documents, compiled by an American diplomatic official and printed at the cost of the Carnegie Endowment, will be indispensable to students of the Chinese question. It includes the documents collected by the late Mr. Rockhill for the ten years up to 1904, and appears to be remarkably complete. Private agreements and understandings as well as regular treaties are recorded, and the editor has reprinted documents, which may or may not be authentic, from unofficial sources, such as an alleged secret Russo-Japanese treaty of July, 1916, relating to China. The two volumes relate to the Manchu and to the Republican periods respectively. They are well printed and moat admirably indexed. Many of the treaties, of course, are obsolete, but there remains a mass of obligations restricting China's internal freedom.
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