Stoessel, General, and his defence of Port Arthur, [188]

"Strange Stories of an Idle Student," a popular work in Chinese depicting conditions prior to Opium War, [150-151]

Streets, improvement in construction and protection of, [218]

Sü of Shanghai, baptised by the name of Paul by Ricci, [138]
his daughter Candida also baptised, [138]

Suchow, in Kiangsu, the Paris of the Far East, [25]
musical dialect, of, [26]

Su Ts'in, the patient diplomat, whose reputation is ruined by his own passions, [99]

Sui dynasty, the, founded by Yan Kien, lasts less than thirty years, [117]

Sundius, Mr., British consul at Wuhu, [227]

Sung, one of the Nan-peh Chao, [116]

Sung dynasty, founded by Chao-kwang-yun, [127]
annals, [127]-[128]
encroachment of the Tartars, [127]
rise of a great school of philosophy, [127-129]
Southern Sungs, [127]