21 APRIL 1888, Page 23

We have to acknowledge two volumes of Messrs. Triibner's "Oriental

Series,"—Essays Relating to lade-China and the Indian Archipelago. Second Series, 2 vols.—These have been reprinted for the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, from the "Journals" of various Societies, among which the Royal Geo- graphical and the Royal Asiatic are perhaps the best known. The essays are twelve in number, and refer for the most part to natural-history subjects, some notes of travel and a linguistic subject being mingled with them.