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THE NOVELIST IN CHINA.
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WHERE HE FAILS.
In reviewing a volume of short! stories, "My Chinese Days," by Gulielma F. Alsop (Butchinson, 106 neth Mr. Raymond Radclyffe writes as follows in Thr Witness-
China has an extraordinary effect upon the European. It com- pels him to write books. Almost) every European who has ever visited China has written some- thing somewhere. - A good. many people take Chica seriously, and spend many years in studying the Isuguage, which they can never) speak correctly, and the literature, which they can never understand. These are the Sinologues-a solemn body of men who look upon themselves with great re- spect. There are others who rush through China, see roads in bad repair, temples tumbling down, mandarins taking squeeze, streets, smells dust in the everywhere.dirty peasanta, bound feet, no milk, butter or bread, and go bome id write long screeds about the Break up of China. But! there are some who have lived in Cina many years and who have. a:customed their roses to the in rapidlysnells, their eyes to the decay. branches their throats to the dust and are Merchandiseo'sessed by the vast borde of industrious placid moring citizens who only need coordination and fadership to conquer the work.
The student tries to become a These are the Yellow Perilis:s.
industries
been
all
in growth apy uther in what reformerly imported was chiefly mains one of the richest agricul limited to the- imitation of such goods and machines as can be tural ecuntries in the world.
At present there are no signs of manufactured in Japan without plaring great, dsmands on the disorder 15 the provinces.) Ministerial rises in the Cortes skilfulness of labour. Taken as a repeatedly succeed each other. whole, there has scarcely been || New Ministries are formed, marlant development in the types of or less enjir a brief existence,annes made. As one Ford-rite_place to newcomers.quence special machines, the pro- But it is all done in the course or ductionof which re wires agreater a day's business, and the men of measure
in hand, sentinel evers paskage and orway in the Legislative Chamber, make no sigu
"of constructional
Inpre
We
Sinologue, and usually strains his a Chinaihan. It is an impossible brain in the attempt to think like
is only one-fourth as old as the as because the European brain!
well expect a child of five to com- Chinese brain, and you might as
trained athlete of twenty.
student who goes to America or see the converse in the Chinese Europe and tries to acquire Wes- ero ideas Fle comes home and prattles baby talk to the Mandarin and to his neighbours. They smile! contemptuously just as we do! when grown-up people talk bahy talk to each other
the Republican Guard, who, ride! Caparity or manufacturing skill,pete in hammer throwing with a have the best and most certain market in Japan. Un the other hand, a lesseomplicated machine or industrial product can certain- I find a marker there provision- AWEARY OF POLITICS. The civil population is equally ally, until the native firms have indifferent to these ondramatic learned how to produce a
They are less favourable cops. exits and entrances.
Mr. Habue proceeds to stale jaweary of political machigations. from which long experience has that false marks of orizin are found 037 Japanese taught them no practical issue in often the fun of higher wages, more native industrial products, giving
of being im food and wine and clothes, is the appearance
xods. It is noted. likely to eiterze. Republic they possess to fullest however, that these products, || the untergarb of political freedom, with few exceptions, are derived Manbrod suffrage is universal. from less important firms. The The only conditions of exercising big, well-known firms apply very a vote in Parliamentary elections strict business methods which stand on a level with are that a man should' be able to certainly
Under theported
Putnam Weale bas lived all his life in China; he knows more thaa any other novelist who has writ- ten & Chinese novel, but he never forgets that he is a European, and, above all, a Politician. There- fore, clever as are his books, they all present the picture from the European point of view. They are incomparably superior to ans other novels written absu: China.j
prose; he is great writer. His "indiscreet Letters from Peking"
read and write and has been at the West, and in many cases eur-for Putnam Weale is a master of the pains of seeing that his name pass them." In conclusion he is entered on the Parliamentary mentions the favour with which At the last General Swedish steam turbines for ship Register. Election of the 600,000 electors propulsion and for land work with in Listor qualified to vote, only electrical generators are being 12,000 went to the poll.
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is a classic, and ranks with Marco Pulo, Cellini. Barrow, and other great authors who have presented their personal impressions of life with vivid flashes of genius. All this novels are far beyond the aver
age, and his descriptions of Chine
are not only accurate but also
four that a man living the whole of his picturesque. Yet I am astounded
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dition of affairs in Portugal to-de-principles, irreproachable in the of social and business position purity of its moral axioms, tur testifying to natural ability and containing no promise of attempt
at legislation. steadfast character, systernatical- ly stand aloof from the arena of matters of urgent importance to life in China should always be politics, as if it were fatally Portugal which cry aloud for mared by the same impulse. He tainted. To sell the truth. they legislative action. Most pressing sees the grandeur of Peking. the is the financial situation. Next industry of the Chinese, their love are not indisposed to aver in
in order come agriculture, trans-for money, but he has never got private conversation that it is..
They remain a mystery which he' As for the population at large, as port and industrial questions inside their lives and their minds. the figures quoted from the Lisbon generally.
The Colonial problem is also does not solve. He never seems to realize that the Chinese are poll indicate, they do not think
the it worth while to walk into the beginning to loom large on the
One of the Aperior in every way to
foreigner. He does not think!ap ancestor worship. rice eating. fmove in the Chinese. polling booth to give their vote. stormy horizon.
and most vigorous
He will tell you what Fung Shai and all your Eastern plays. We see the figures on the The inevitable result of this earliest
more in state of things is that the Cortes pioneers of colonisation. Portugal they are.
His opinion is always sound. we are." The Chinese do look at we know that they are not alive becomes a negligible quantity today ranks in respect of land is going to happen-politically. habits? Look at us how good screen and we often laugh, bu and ministers figurebeads. area the third colonial Power in
Chinese think for he has never don't find anything nice about certain manner, conditioned no suspected of being concerned the world. Some of the colonies But he cannot tell you how the the foreigner, carefully, but they They are made to more with making something out are beginning to grow restless inside the Chinese mind. No him. Above all, they find nothing by the psychology of the actor
of the
to imitate in the habits of the but by that of the person wh of their brief term of office than under the ineptitude
I have a collection of novels English and American Mission- pulls the strings in the puppe of administering its affairs for Home Governinent, and a - move-
impulse swings this way or that ment, if not get towards actual the benefit of the nation..
independence, in the direction of dealing with Chinese life. Some aries who made trouble ever since show. Comic or tragic as th
Chinese novels have built There are many novelists, such TAKDY-LEGISLATION.
fuller-freedom from home re-are preposterons. as Mr. Wu" they first came to China.
which many think & remarkable On the other day new straint, adde to the embarrass-study of the Chinese mind. Many as the author of "My Chinese an entirely false ides of t Ministry met the Cortes at the ment of the Goverment.
are written by missionaries, and. Days," who give us clever descrip- Chinese. They have encourage opening of a Session without pre- These matters are, I have I presume that My Chirese tions of China, but the Chinese us to think that the Chinese. senting any definite progra nme reason to believe. seriously Days" comes under this category, who appear in such stories are a decadent race capable of beir
For there is noĵone day we shall find that of legislation such as forms an engaging the attention of a small Most of the missionary novels not real live people; they are eternally bullied. I am afraid fa
aro patroniving. The author simulacra. imperative preliminary in the body of the class of men who, if,
Poor heathen sympathy between the author, have made a mistake. T Chinese take long-views and a House of Commons assembled in they should finally resolve to put says in effect analagous circumstances. In its their band to the plough would Chinese, why don't you turn and the people described,
The Chinese move through all patient, but we must not prsŠKY. baptised. to the Weat, get place the Prime Minister issued work wonders in what is need- a general statement of governing lessly a distressful country.
and wear European clothes, givel the Chinges novelwas the shadows too much upon that patiese
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