to marry or not to marry: for men and women

"Oh, if you ever marry, don't make the mistake of treating the woman as an ideal. Treat her in every way as a human being exactly like yourself! With the same weakness, the same struggles, the same temptations! And as you have some mercy on yourself despite your faults, have some mercy on her despite hers."

- James Allen Lane's (1849-1925) The Choir Invisible (New York: Macmillan, 1897). 

May married men take this to heart, as well as bachelors.

何謂好色？何謂好淫？

何謂好色？何謂好淫？且看馮夢龍（1574-1646）的《醒世恒言》，卷15，〈赫大卿遺恨鴛鴦絛〉：

論來好色與好淫不同，假如古詩云：「一笑傾人城，再笑傾人國。豈不顧傾城與傾國，佳人難再得！」此謂之好色。
若是不擇美惡，以多為勝，如俗語所云：「石灰布袋，到處留跡。」其色何在？但可謂之好淫而已。
然雖如此，在色中又有多般：假如張敞畫眉，相如病渴，雖為儒者所譏，然夫婦之情，人倫之本，此謂之正色；
又如嬌妾美婢，倚翠偎紅，金釵十二行，錦障五十裡，櫻桃楊柳，歌舞擅場，碧月紫雲，風流姱艷，雖非一馬一鞍，畢竟有花有葉，此謂之傍色；
又如錦營獻笑，花陣圖歡，露水分司，身到偶然留影，風雲隨例，顏開那惜纏頭，旅館長途，堪消寂寞，花前月下，亦助襟懷，雖市門之游，豪客不廢，然女閭之遺，正人恥言，不得不謂之邪色；
至如上蒸下報，同人道於獸禽，鑽穴逾牆，役心機於鬼蜮，偷暫時之歡樂，為萬世之罪人，明有人誅，幽蒙鬼責，這謂之亂色。
又有一種不是正色，不是傍色，雖然比不得亂色，卻又比不得邪色。填塞了虛空圈套，污穢卻清淨門風，慘同神面刮金，惡勝佛頭澆糞，遠則地府填單，近則陽間業報。 奉勸世人，切須謹慎！正是：不看僧面看佛面，休把淫心雜道心。

How big was the Commercial Press and Chung Hua?

Just some notes while reading North-China Daily News without cross-checking Chinese newspapers.

North-China Daily News, 12th August 1926, p. 10.

'Some 810 employees of the printing works of the Chung Hua Book Co. at 277 Bubbling Well Road, who struck on Monday, are still out. … About 150 employees in the printing works of the American Presbyterian Mission Press Works at 135 North Szechuen Road are still on strike.' (emphasis mine)

North-China Daily News, 14th August 1926, p. 8. 

'The strike in the Chung Hua printing works at 277 Bubbling Well Road, where about 810 persons have been out for more than a week, still continues. Agitators are now attempting to extend the dissatisfaction to the sales department at the corner of Foochow and Honan Roads. No settlement has yet been arrived at in the strike of 150 printers in the American Presbyterian Mission Press works at 135 North Szechuen Road.' (emphasis mine)

North-China Daily News, 19th August 1926, p. 10.

'Although no settlement has been reached in the strike of 810 printers in the Chung Hua printing works at 277 Bubbling Well Road, the employees of the sales department at the corner of Foochow and Honan Roads are working practically normally, only four employees failing to show up for work yesterday. The police are still giving their protection to the office and have succeeded in breaking up the gang of pickets which has been harassing the employees for several days.' (emphasis mine)

North-China Daily News, 19th August 1926, p. 10.

'It is reported that the 150 employees of the American Presbyterian Mission printing works at 135 North Szechuen Road, who went on strike on August 6, have expressed a desire to return to work and that the management is contemplating re-opening the works shortly.' (emphasis mine)

North-China Daily News, 4th October 1926, p. 14.

'About 1,600 of the 2,000 employees in the printing department of the Commercial Press, who struck on Friday to try and enforce a demand for the dismissal of a foreman, when they claimed had made a false report to the management to the effect that they were idling their time in gambling, resumed work unconditionally on Saturday afternoon. Of the remaining 400 on strike 50 representatives were chosen and held a meeting at the Commercial Press Employees Union in Paoshan Road when it was decided that they should proceed with the strike until the foreman was dismissed.' (emphasis mine)

North-China Daily News, 5th October 1926, p. 8.

'The backbone of the strike in the printing department of the Commercial Press was broken, when the remaining 400 of 2,000 originally on strike returned to work yesterday morning, unconditionally. It is understood that the management will not deduct the strikers’ wages for the three days’ duration of the strike.' (emphasis mine)

Tones of the Mandarin Dialect are Given in English and Chinese (1865)

莎彝尊授男夢巖輯：《英語官話合講》（廣州：同治四年六月刊，1865）。Sau Mang Yian, Tones of the Mandarin Dialect are Given in English and Chinese (Canton, 1865). 誰是莎彝尊？誰是夢巖？誰是Sau Mang Yian？暫時不詳。

序：「此書名曰英語官話合講，所以通兩國之音，將官話譯出英話，而以英字切合正音，不獨外國人學官話不難，即漢人學英語亦易。茲畧綴數條取其常用而易習學者，果能熟習而隅舉之，則於應酬之道，未嘗無小補云耳。」

Book donations to the Mission at Malacca (London Missionary Society) in 1818

The members of the Mission at Malacca, take this opportunity of returning their thanks to the gentlemen and friends, whose names are mentioned below, for donations of books to the Mission Library.

Major Wm. Farquhar, Malacca:

Marsden’s Dictionary of the Malay Language, 1 vol. 4to.

Rev. Mr. Supper, Batavia:

Walker’s (of Edinburgh) Sermons, 4 vols. 8vo.

Walker’s (of Truro) Sermons, 2 vols. 8vo.

Newton’s Sermons on the Messiah, 2 vols. 8vo.

Capt. Peter Gordon,

Chamber’s Harmony of the Gospel, 1 vol. 8vo.

Reports of the Society for promoting Chrisitan Knowledge, vol. 8vo.

Transactions of the Missionary Society, 3 vols. 8vo. (p. 69)

              Campbell on the 4 Gospels, 2 vols.

              Bachauan’s Researches in India, 1 vol. 8vo.

J. Hancox, 411, Oxford-Street, London,

              Life of the Rev. T. Robinson, Leicester, 1 vol. 8vo.

              Elliat’s Sermons.

              Father on Genesis, 2 vols. 8vo.

              Ball on Terms of COmmanion.

Miss Toomer, Southampton – Missionary Register, 4 vols. 8vo.

An unknown friend,

              Manton’s Works, 3vols. folio,

              Peak’s [?] Annotations, 2 vols. folio,

              Chambers’s Dictionary, 2 vols. folio

              Annrose’s [?] works, 1 vol. folio,

              Perlink’s [?] works, 1 vol. folio,

              Goodwin’s Works, 2 vols, folio.

              Ainsworth’s Annotations, 1 vol. folio.

Dr. Styles, Brighton,

              Styles’s Sermons, 1 vol. 8vo.

              Boston’s Covenial [?] of Grace, 1 vol. 8vo.

Rev. Mr. ___, England

              Indime micuities [?], by Maurice, 6 vols. 8vo.

              Watt’s works, 9 vols, 8vo.

Mrs. Brewer – Christian Chserver, 13 vols. 8vo.

Mr. Bunnell – Theological Magazine and Review, 3 vols. 8vo.

Mr. Webster,

              Theological Magazine, 2 vols. 8vo.

              Parable of the ten virgins, 1 vol. folio.

Mr. W. Smith- Brighton – Bailley’s History of Asia, 2 vols. 12mo.

Mr. J. Landies, London,

              Evengeical Magazine, 2 vols. 8vo.

              General anding to the Chief of Sinners [?], 1 vol. 12mo.

W. S. Davison, Esq. China

              Marcartney’s Embassy to China, 2 vols. 4to.

              Waidon the Hindoos, 1 vol. 4to.

Dr. Clark, H. C. S. Waterloo – Sermons, by Rev. Matthew Henry

J. Livingstone, Esq, Macao,

              Sampson’s Algebra, 1 vol. 8vo. (p. 70)

              Gregory’s Mechanics, 3 vols. 8vo.

              Smith’s Wealth of Nations, 3 vols. 8vo.

Sir Andrew Ljunsteds, Macao,

              A Grammar of the Spanish Language, 1 vol. 8vo.

              Wilson’s Elements of Hebrew Grammar, 1 vol. 8vo.

              Dowling’s Elements and Theory of the Hebrew Language, 1 vol. 8vo.

              Vocabulario de la Langua Tagala* Primera, 2 vols. 4to.

              Historia de la Provincia del Santisimo Rosario de Filipians, China, y Tunquin Orden de Predicadores, 1 vol. 4to.

              Catceismo de Doctrina Christiama, en Lengua BIsaya, 1 vol. 12mo.

              Parrochio de Indios Instruido, 1 vol. 8vo.

              Arte de la Leagua Tagala, para la Administracion de la Santos Sacramentos, 1 vol. 8vo.

              Compendia de la Arte de la Lengua Tagala, 1 vol. 12mo.

              Practico del Ministerio, en Philipinas, 1 vol. 8vo.

Missionary Society,

              Encyclopaedia Britannica, 22 vols. 4to.

              Rollin’s Ancient History, in French, 12 vols. 12mo.

              Stockii Clavis Linguae Sanctae, 2 vols. 8vo.

              Schlensueri Lexicon Graeco-Latinum, in Novum Testamentum, 2 vols. 8vo.

              Newcomb’s Minor Prophets, 1 vol. 8vo.

              Gray’s Key to the Old Testament and Apocrypha, 1 vol. 8vo.

              Butler’s Horae Biblicae, 2 vols. 8vo.

              Gerard’s Biblical Criticism, 1 vol. 8vo.

              Lowth’s Isaiah, 2 vols. 8vo.

              Missionary Transactions, 3 vols. 8vo.

              Stower’s Printer’s Grammar, 1 vol. 8vo.

We have also to acknowledge the favours of several young friends in England, for some smaller Publicatios, which are no less acceptable.

source: The Indo-Chinese gleaner, vol. 3, February, 1818.