TURKEY.
The works printed during the past year at the cost of the Committee by the American Missionaries in Constantinople, who have received the usual grant of £300, have amounted to 13,000 copies in Arabo-Turkish; 8,000 in Armenian; 3,000 in Armeno-Turkish; and 6,000 in Bulgarian.
ASIATIC OPERATIONS.
INDIA.
The report from India speaks of movement and progress both in printing and circulation.
Madras writes:—“The past year records the largest number of distinct publications that have ever been published in any one year. The average number of new publications has only been seven: this year seventy-seven distinct publications have been issued, sixty-four of which are new tracts and books. The printing is about the average.”
From Bombay, Mr. Bowen says:—“Our circulation is much in advance of what it ever was. Our financial condition is good.”
From Colombo Mr. Murdoch says:—“The subscriptions are somewhat in advance of the preceding year; but the most encouraging feature is the great increase, amounting to 45 per cent. beyond former sales.”
The amount of paper granted to the various printing presses during the past year has been considerably increased, being 3,062 reams; while 754,110 books and tracts have been printed during the year by the various Indian Auxiliaries.