Actors debarred from literary degrees, 54; different grades, 57; salaries, 58. Adobe houses, construction, 23. Adoption, conditions, 251, 252. Aged, occasional hard lot of the, 326. "Analects" quoted, 93. Architecture of China described, 25. Arnold of Rugby _vs._ Confucius, 72. "Backing" the lesson, 81; illustration, 81, 82. Betrothal, evils of early, 267. Bookkeeping, difficult in Chinese, 52. "Book of Surnames," 84. Books copied by poor scholars, 100. Borrowing, its universal necessity, 204, 205. "Bowl associations," 188. Boys and men, village: infancy of, 237, 238; "milknames" given them, 238; why called by girls' names, 238; names a clue to relationship, 239; "style," 239, 240; secret titles used on letters, 240; titles for men, 240; boys carried about for years, 241; Chinese fathers not sympathetic with childhood, 242, 243; boys' amusements and toys, 242-245; do not rob birds' nests, 244; work of boys, 245-247; their wages, 247; outings, 247; "donning the cap" on arriving at majority, 247, 248; getting married, 248-250; adoption of sons, 251, 252; adopting a daughter's husband, 252; "reverting to original names," 253, 254; two branches of a family represented by one man, 254; treatment in serious illness, 255, 256; subordination of men to the elder relationships, 256; summary of village boy's limitations, 256, 257. Bricks, colour and manufacture of, 22; adobe, 23. Bridal chair, 269; its dismantling, 271. Bully, the village: peculiar to China, 211; Chinese traits favouring his existence, 211; names, 211, 216; differentiated from four cognate classes of society, 211, 212; dual classification of villagers, 212; three varieties of bully, 212-225; dress of bullies, 213; how one becomes a "village king," 214; gymnastic preparation, 215; poverty as a qualification, 216; bullies as incendiaries, 217; as crop injurers, 217, 218; feeders to the yamêns, 218; devices used against the rich, 218, 219; the literary bully, 219; the female bully, 219; organization of a bully's followers, 220, 221; attacks on yamêns, 222; worsted, 223; power when influential, 223; an illustration of such a bully, 223-225. Candidates for examination, 112. Carts, 39; how drawn, 39. Cash, one way of securing rare coins, 52. Cash payments rare, 206. Cave dwellings, 22. Chang Kung, 27. Chên-tien, or market towns, 147.