be in a hurry with your books; the first and most important thing
is to learn to swim!"

Here is another newspaper gem: "In China, the land of opposites, the
dials of the clocks are made to turn round, while the hands stand
still."

Personally, I never noticed this arrangement.

Again: "Some of the tops with which the Chinese amuse themselves are as
large as barrels. It takes three men to spin one, and it gives off a
sound that may be heard several hundred yards away."

"The Chinese National Anthem is so long that it takes half a day to sing
it."

"Chinese women devote very little superfluous time to hair-dressing.
Their tresses are arranged once a month, and they sleep with their heads
in boxes."

What we want in place of all this is a serious and systematic
examination of the manners and customs, and modes of thought, of the
Chinese people.

Their long line of Dynastic Histories must be explored and their
literature ransacked by students who have got through the early years of
drudgery inseparable from the peculiar nature of the written language,
and who are prepared to devote themselves, not, as we do now, to a
general knowledge of the whole, but to a thorough acquaintance with some
particular branch.

The immediate advantages of such a course, as I must point out once
more, for the last time, to commerce and to diplomatic relations will be
incalculable. And they will be shared in by the student of history,
philosophy, and religion, who will then for the first time be able to
assign to China her proper place in the family of nations.

The founder of this Chinese Chair has placed these advantages within the
grasp of Columbia University.

INDEX

INDEX

_Account of Strange Nations_, book in Cambridge collection, 58.

Albinos, Chinese, 181.

Alchemy, Taoist practice, 166-168.

_Analects_, Confucian Canon, 42.

Ancestral worship, China, 199-201.

Ancestry of Chinese traced through mother in ancient times, 27.

Ancient Greece, _see_ Greece.

"And," idea in Chinese written character, 28.

Archaeology--
Chinese dictionaries and work, 120.
Confucian Canon, archaeological works referring to, 43.
"Ark," erroneous analysis of Chinese written character, 34.

Athenian and Chinese women, points of resemblance, 121.

Baby Towers, Chinese infanticide, 190-192.

Bactria--
Alchemy, practice imported into China, 166
Mission of Chang Ch'i