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Rh for the offices of the Sin Wan Pao, in Hankow Road, and will soon be ready for occupation.

Mr. J. D. Clark, Dr. John C. Ferguson, and Mr. Chu Pao Shan are the directors, and Mr. J. Morgan is the secretary of the company. The editorial staff consists of two assistant editors, four sub-editors, and eight proof-readers, under the editor-in-chief, Mr. Yao Pak Hsuen. Forty-three compositors are employed in the composing room, under a competent foreman, and nineteen printers are engaged in the machine room. A Japanese and a European foreman will be required for the printing room when the new machine is set to work.



MR. YAO PAK HSUEN, editor-in-chief of the Sin Wan Pao, is thirty-eight years of age, and a native of Shanghai. He was educated at the Mai-chi College, a middle college established by the Shanghai Taoutai in the native city. Before the China-Japan War he was private secretary to His Excellency Shao Shiao, then Governor of Formosa. In 1900 he came to Shanghai as assistant editor of the Sin Wan Pao, and three years later he was promoted to the editorial chair. He is president of the Hupeh Primary School and a member of the Chinese Self-Government Society. His father, Mr. Yao Shien Ming, who retired into private life four years ago, is an expectant prefect of the Chekiang Province.


 * The Saturday Review.

The Saturday Review is a weekly paper published at Shanghai and circulating throughout the Far East in general and China in particular, more especially amongst the thinking classes of Chinese and foreign residents. The object of the paper is to furnish a résumé of what the world says and writes about the Far East; to review the events and books of the day; to emphasise the value of any matter or effort conducing to the uplifting and prosperity of China and the Chinese people; and to supply elevating and interesting reading at a reasonable cost. Its policy is one of sympathy with all Chinese effort towards progress.



CAPTAIN W. KEARTON, the editor, has travelled the world for the major portion of his life. He served with distinction in the South African War, and, as correspondent for the Graphic, he accompanied the Macedonian insurgents in the last insurrection, and was attached to the First Japanese Army — Kuroki’s — in the Russo-Japanese Campaign. He is a member of the Savage Club.


 * Social Shanghai.

Probably no place in the East has been so prolific in the production of periodicals as Shanghai, where the population is of so unique and cosmopolitan a character and the interests represented are so varied. Papers in profusion, both weekly and monthly, have seen the light of day. Many of them, after a brief and hopeless struggle for existence, have passed into the limbo of things forgotten.

The need, however, of an illustrated paper to record the doings of local society had been long felt when, in February, 1906, there appeared the first issue of Social Shanghai, a periodical similar in design to the well-known London publications and containing some forty-three pages of letterpress and fifteen very creditable half-tone blocks. At the outset the paper was intended only for ladies; the promoters promised to chronicle



dances, parties, “at homes,” and other social gatherings, and to give due attention to the fashions, music, sports and pastimes, and gardening. This promise was amply fulfilled in the first number. The paper continued to appear in a similar form until the following June, when the enterprising promoters issued



an enlarged and improved edition, containing seventy-five pages of reading matter, as well as close upon one hundred reproductions of well- known local people and current events. It was printed on heavy art paper and was as attractive