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The history of China is not easily accessible except upon

a very elaborate scale. Dr. Herbert H. Gowen's Outline History of China in two volumes (T. Werner Laurie, 10s. net) should therefore prove useful. The first volume takes the story from the prehistorical rulers of China down to the Manchu conquest in 1644, while the second carries it down to the recognition of the Republic in 1913.