"THESE FROM THE LAND OF SINIM" its prophecies of the harm therefrom to come as the society's operations crossed the frontier and began to spread in Peoheli.In faot,if there was one ory to which our ears had grown so accustomed as to mind it less than our own heart-beats,it was this Chinese ory of Wolf!" Rebellion was ever on the point of upsetting the dynasty-the Government was always on its last leg8-foreigners were to be exterminated on a given date-the powers were about to partition China-eto.,etc.,etc.:each year- nay,every month,the press or local rumour, Cassandra-like,foretold woe,and yet,barring a few episodes of various degrees of importance, the Government went on as before.The last half of the nineteenth century saw the Taeping rebellion,the“Arow”war,the Tientsin mas-. saore,the Franco-Chinese misunderstanding,the war with Japan,and the surrender of Cochin- China,Burma,Kiao Chow,Port Arthur,Wei-Hai. Wei,Kwang Chow Wan,eto.,to the foreigner. It also saw the rejection of Italy's Chekiang demands-and still life went on unchanged and the cry of Wolf grew more and more mean- ingless:s0 it was not surprising that many supposed the Boxer scare would fizzle out similarly and with a minimum of danger to either Chinese Government or foreign interests. At the same time some of us regarded the movement as very significant,but we did not:I "THESE PROM THE LIND OPSIN/AI" its prophecies of the harm therefrom to oome as the society's operations crossed the frontier and began to spread in Pecheli. In fact, if there was one cry to which our ears had grown 80 accustomed as to mind it less than our own heart-beats, it was this Chinese cry of cc Wolf I " Rebellion was ever on the point of upsetting the dynasty-the Government was always on its last legs-foreigners were to be exterminated on a given date-the powers were about to partition Chine.-etc., etc., etc.: each year￾nay, every month, the press or local rumour, Cassandra-like, foretold woe, and yet, barring a few episodes of various degrees of importance, the Government went on as before. The last half of the nineteenth oentury saw the Taeping rebellion, the "Arrow" war, the Tientsin mas￾sacre, the Franco-Chinese misunderstanding, the ·war with Japan, and the surrender of Cochin- 'China, Burma, Kiao Chow, Port Arthur, Wei-Rai. Wei, Kwang Chow Wan, etc., to the foreigner. It also saw the rejection of Italy's Chekiang demands-and still life went on unchanged and the cry of Wolf grew more and more mean￾ingleBB: so it was not surprising that many supposed the Boxer scare would fizzle out similarly and with a minimum of dangel' to either Chinese Government or foreign interests. At the same time some of us regarded the movement as very signi1icant, but we did not (