Mission Printing.

Excellent Quality of Work.

A REMARKABLE example of the technical skill displayed by Mela nesian boys trained by the Anglican Mission is provided by a number of books which we have just received from the officers of the Melanesian Mission Press, Guadalcanar, Solomon Islands.

Nearly all the books are in the Mota language, which has been adopted for general use in that part of the Pacific.

The books include an excellently bound copy of the New Testament in Mota, a copy of the calendar in Mota, and a most interesting production, “O Sala Ususur,” which is actually a newspaper in the Mota language for the use of the Solomon Islands natives. If, as is fre quently asserted, the printing press is the ploughshare of European culture, some interesting developments may be expected in the Solomons.

These books have been set up, printed, collated and bound by native helpers, and the quality of the work would be a credit to any European printing office.