The “Chinese Six Companies” make a representation on their own account, calling attention to the fact that, since the treaty, the United States Government has received from China nearly $800,000 indemnity for outrages on American citizens and their property, while in not one case in fifty of similar offenses against themselves have the perpetrators been brought to justice. In the July riots in San Francisco, when upward of thirty Chinese laundries and dwellings were raided, some burned, one Chinaman killed, and his body thrown into the flames, not one arrest was made by the authorities, State or municipal. They say that for twenty-five years the emigration has not averaged over 4,000 annually. They reiterate what they said to the chairman of the late Chinese Congressional Commission, the late Senator Morton, in a communication addressed to him—“That if the restricting the emigration of our people to this free country would have a tendency to allay the fears of the timid, and protect our people in their just rights, we would give our aid and countenance to any measure to that end.” * * * * * If the assertion of the California Senate, in its memorial to Congress, that “there is no evidence that a single Chinaman has been converted to Christianity, or has been persuaded to adopt Christian manners and habits of life,” is a fair sample of the truthfulness of the statements of that document, it offers a very weak foundation on which to base a legislative enactment. This we know to be false. Those who have read our monthly letters from Mr. Pond will not need to be reminded that more than a hundred in our schools alone are now giving convincing evidence that they are Christian men, and that not simply in name, but in deed and in truth; and that a large number have united to establish and maintain a Christian home for the expressed purpose of adopting Christian manners and habits of life. We are regretfully compelled to doubt the familiarity of California Senators with the progress of Christian missions in their own State. Are their other “facts” no truer than this? * * * * * BOOK NOTICE. ETHIOPIA, _or Twenty Years of Missionary Life in Western Africa_. By Rev. D. K. Flickinger. As indicated in the title, the author of this modest volume has had long experience as a missionary of the United Brethren to Africa. Their mission station is near our own, and its story sheds light on our work. With no pretension to literary or artistic merit, a very simple and vivid description is given of the people of the north-western coast, their homes, their houses, their food, their dress (or lack of it), their sleep, their work, their war, their play. The grossness of their polygamy, the superstition of their faith in gree-grees, and their Purrow society (an Oriental Ku Klux Klan) are exposed.