LÀ HUNG CHANG.
At Mrs, Archibald Little says in this admir- able book of hers, to write the story of the life of Li Hung-Chang is to write the history of China during the Nineteenth Century. Our only complaint about the book is that the writ ing in clumsy. Take for example the following words which when examined are quite clear, though the construction is, we contend, clumsy "The man selected by Li was of such low rank that pressure had to be brought to bear on the Viceroy, who at length replaced him by his own brother, Li Han-Chang. The latter then so delayed that, though Sir Thomas Wade left Peking for Shanghai so as to telegraph home conveniently, and Mr. Grosvenor started up the Yang-ise, yet the latter returned to his chief and Sir Thomas to Tientsin without having ananged anything." That is what we under stand as clumsy writing, and there are pages of it. But apart from that Mrs. Little is admir. ably equipped for her task, and she presents us with quite a humane and interesting portrait of the great Chinese statesman Li was one of the great men of the Nineteenth Century, and the statesmen who cameincontact with him willingly acknowledged the fact. He was quite unscrupu Tous as to the manner in which he might reale his ends, and even his ends were not always worthy of approval; but, on the whole, he had the gend of his country at heart, and he understand what was wanted infinitely beller than foreign critics, or, at least, he knew better than they how much his countrymen would take. The hatted of the "foreign devils" -he-did vot share, but he knew how strong it was, and his efforts to mitigate that hatred were made with full knowledge of the well-nigh Impossible project he had in hand. The
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| Japan on March 14, the Viceroy was fired at 11.
on his way back from the meeting by a Japa nese fanatic. The conversations between Li and Count to are reproduced in part by Mr. Little, and they show how subtle both Chinese and Japanese are in diplomacy. Li had the more difficult part to play, but it cannot be denied that he played it with consummate skill though, he had met his match in the great Japanese soldier. Li was taken back into favour Then followed the triumphal progress through Europe, which is still in all our memories. Then came the Boxer move- ment, and, after that his death. Mm. Linje describen it all with brevity, but with full emphasis on what is essential and (o, be re- membered. Liwas got borest; but then be was a Chinaman, and we may well ask with Mrs. Little in her final sentence: "Can our ways seem so strange even to the sogels as Chinese ways appear to us 7" We would also like to nak, if it is possible for the Western to judge calmly and impartially of the Oriental mind? Frankly we do sot think it possible. But after reading Mịs. Littie's book we are not sure that the Yellow Peril is quite so yellow as it sometimes seems.-The Timis.
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Chinese are in small matters slow to anger; THERE IS NO they are long-lived if they are not killed before their time and what to Europeans seems unusual and exasperating delay is to them but the natural methods of diplomacy. "It is noticeable," says Mis. Little, "that the two Englishmen who have longest retained the confidence of their Chinese employers-Sir Robert Hart and Sir Halliday Macartney-are both men of very calm and somewhat reticent chamcter, men who could not be moved to hasty anger and impatient words, and that both Gordon and Sir Thomas Wade were emphatically of the opposite types." It is certainly, true of Gordon and Li; two men more utterly opposed to each other by tempera- ment and by their outlook on life can hardly be imagined; Gordon, hysterical and with a most sensitive appreciation of honour, Li, unemotional and subtle, with his own sense of honour which permitted him to do-almost anything he wished. Yet it was. Li who was afraid of Gordon, and he respected him to the end of his days. Gordon was really too excit- able a man to undertake any delicate diplomatic mission. It is necessary sometimes to be ns. cold-blooded as the men you hate. You must resort to their methads to outwit them. Gardon could not do that. The history of the Taiping Rebellion, and the results of it are very fully told by Mrs. Little, who writes with great im- partiality and a full knowledge of the subject. Li was thereafter promoted to Chibli, where be was Viceroy for thirty years. There he came into immediate contact with foreigners, and profited accordingly. Mrs. Little contrasts, in an excellent chapter the character of Li and that of Chang Chih-Tung. Both Chinamen, they were yet wide as the poles asunder. Gordon could have got on with Chang Chih-Tung, who was proud of the title the "Incorruptible." And yet though his morals were excellent, as a statesman he was not within sight of Li. Yet, atrange to say, though Chih-Tung's batred of the foreigners was unmitigated and sincere, he was one of the Yangtse Viceroys to whom Eumpeans in China owed their lives in the terrible year 19oo. He was comparatively as small a man as Li was gigantic. "In coelo quier let us hope is his motto, and that there may at last be peace there for many an over. texed Chinese mandarin who, in much bewil derment, somewhat blindly strives to do his duty with an usurping Empress, a deposed Emperor, and eight nations knocking at the gales to extort from a long-suffering and a too- often starving peasantry compensations for their rulers' wickedness. Beware the fary of a patient man. We may yet see worse deeds than those of 1900" These are ominous words. Balso one can write on China and not use ominous words. There is something in the Celestial face, mind, or temperament which in time Inspires the heart of the European with terror. And yet wisdom is not wanting in the Celestial Empire. We cannot forbear to quote the works of the father of the Marquis Taeng which Mrs. Little describes as "high minded," as indeed they are: "It is always difficult to know what to do in barbarian affairs. However, the key is never to be found far from the four qualities of Confucius- loyalty, genuineness, truth, and respect. Gea uineness means honesty; respect' means prudence; for truth it simply suffices not to "way anything that is untrue, yet this is the most difeult of all, and it is on this word that it behoves us to take our chief hold, Do not
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