Bulletin of Catholic University of Peking

8 BULLETIN NUMBER FOUR

ing Italy for Brazil in 1914, he spent seven years in decorating the Abbey

Church of Sao Bento in the Brazilian metropolis of Sao Paulo. In 1922, he changed the scene of his labors to New York City at the request of Prior Bernard, O.S.B. The latter’s church, known as St. Anselm’s in the Bronx, now contains a specimen of Dom Adelbert’s decorative work in the style of the School of Beuron. In 1926, he returned to his monastery at Maredsous, whence he was called to China in the Fall of the same year -on his present architectural mission. This mission was undertaken at the express request of Cardinal Van Rossum, Prefect of the Propaganda, and of Archbishop Costantini, Apostolic Delegate to China. Its nature is so clearly set forth in Dom Adelbert’s masterly article as to render further comment superfluous. ; 2

Dr. James H. Ingram, the writer of the fourth article, is an old resident of Peking. Born in 1858, in Richmond County, Ohio, he studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating there in 1883. Having practised medicine for several years in Cape May County, New Jersey, he left the United States for China in 1887. His residence here was at Tungshou until 1914. During this interval he was called upon to pass through the trying ordeal of the Boxer Uprising. Forced to take refuge with his family in the Legation Quarter at Peking, he underwent the harrowing experience of the Siege of the Legations in the summer of 1901. Dr. Ingram has traveled extensively in China. He is an authority on Chinese etymology. His charity as physician to the Trappists of Yang Chia Ping has endeared him to that community. It was owing, too, to his invaluable advice and assistance that the American Benedictines were enabled to secure the present property of the University. The reader will undoubtedly enjoy the Doctor’s vivid reminiscences of his sojourn in the Valley of the “Lost Tribe” of China.

The fifth article, Manicheism in China, belongs to the series of historical articles on the religions of China, which it is our intention to publish from time to time in the Buw//etin. The author is the Rt. Hon. Mr. Ch’en Yitian, Vice-Rector of the University. Certain biographical details concerning Mr. Ch’en appear in the Faculty list given in the first article, and introductory remarks on his article are made in the Editor’s Note, which immediately precedes the latter. Further comment, therefore, is here unnecessary.

The aforesaid Faculty list also contains a brief account of the scholastic career of the writer of the sixth article, Dom Sylvester Healy, O.S.B., who has the distinction of being the first Benedictine monk to take his vows in China. Though Dom Sylvester’s timely article on the need of higher education for the Catholic Missions speaks for itself, requiring no commendation on the part of the editor, the latter cannot refrain from taking advantage of this occasion to express his genuine admiration and esteem for the splendid teacher and genial companion to whose pen this article

1s due.