14 AUGUST 1915, Page 25

Mr. Paul Myron, an American writer with some apparent acquaintance

with China, writes in Our Chinese Chances (Chicago : Linebarger, $1.25 net) of the opportunities which American trade may find in China during the European war. Half the book is occupied by not unsuccessful descriptions of the outward appearance of the country, and the rest by unmeasured attacks upon Yuan Shi-Kai and his adminis- tration.