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440 recommend the first volume of Sir John Francis Davis’s recently published and excellent work, "China during the War and since the Peace."

Comparing the China war with the Japan expedition, Sir J. F. Davis also remarks:

We shall turn presently to Mr. Fortune’s interesting account of the progress of British connexion with China, but must precede those statements with a few observations of Sir. J. F. Davis. First, in regard to Chusan, for the loss of which we are remotely comforted by the assurance that it "is a point of such importance, political and military, if not commercial, that the course of time and events might again some day make us acquainted with it," Sir J. F. Davis says, that when occupied by us, nothing could exceed the good-humour and contentedness of the native Chinese, so different from the assumptions in Yukien’s mock declaration during the war. It was impossible to traverse the suburb between the sea and the town without observing plain proofs of the good understanding existing between the military and the people. In one shop might be seen inscribed, 'Stultz, Tailor, from London in another,