of the American Fourteenth Infantry, Sixth Cavalry, and the marines under Captain McCalla of the cruiser _Newark_, and recently the fine Fifteenth Infantry, U. S. A., has renewed the very favorable gentlemanly impression at Tientsin and along the railway line to Peking. When the military weddings take place at St. John’s Cathedral, Hongkong, and the cathedrals at Shanghai and Tientsin, it is customary for the brother officers of the groom to unsheath their swords and make an arch of steel over Mars and Venus as they make their exit from the church. This old custom is not often seen elsewhere than in India and China, and would be a pretty one to adopt for military weddings the world over. The Germans particularly would take to it with zest; in fact, they have just adopted it in their “kirche” at Tsingtau, North China, and the Americans may adopt it in the smart military life of Manila. Important newspapers published in English are the _Times_, at Tientsin; the _Mail_, _Telegraph_, _Press_ and _Post_, of Hongkong; the _Herald_, _News_, _Mercury_, _Press_, _Far Eastern Review_ and _Times_, of Shanghai; the _Post_, of Hankau; the _Gazette_ and _Times_, of Amoy, and the _Echo_, of Fuchau. The _Times_ and the _Cable News_, of Manila; the _Free Press_ and _Echo_, of Singapore; and the _Englishman_, of Calcutta, may be included, together with the _Chronicle_, of Japan, because they circulate in China ports, “nothing that is Oriental being alien” to their fascinating news columns. Their editorials are illuminating, and often exhibit in their cultured English positive genius. They are an authoritative source of information on the absorbing theme of golden Cathay, and the interest of the brave Occidental pioneer in her awakening.