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lair the brigand had him securely tied up and a hemp rope put round his neck, the other end being over (Continued from Page 7.)

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the following passages:~ THE DRUMMER Examination for Chinese as seen in the Colony. Its statement is one of the strongest brigand remarked to Kai Lung. "It

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To this Kal Lung made no reply, To-day." It concerns the amazing chiefly because at that moment the Sir John Davis-wus a very in industry of the Chinese student. wind swayed the tree, and compell- dustrious ex-Governor of Hong It reads as follows:- Kong who wrote fifteen volumes:

od him to stand on his toes in order "For intellectual toll the Chin-to escape suffocation. about China and the Chinese, over a ese have a phenomenal talent. period of nearly fifty years (1823 to

This book delighted me. It has They are willing to submit to the advantage that, as each chap- 1870).

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These books will inerest those who like to read about the early days.

The Reliable Dr. Morse, One of the most reliable writers is Dr. Morse, He entered the Customs service in 1874, coming (as he says) "To China direct from the hails of fair Harvard." He is,

ways remained happily uncon- "scious."

process (according to the old re- gime), has to be indefinitely re- the same author, also, is a splendid "Kai Lung's Golden Hours" by peated, Perhaps in the entire tonic at the end of a weary day. history of the world no such mis- I believe, now a British subject and

"China's Own Critics." application of mental labour is to has spent many years in England

be found as in China; yet of this Dr. Hu Shih is a brilliant writer, It is my humble conviction that devoting himself to literary work.

the Chinese themselves have al- in the English language. Perhaps his most famous efforts

He is is "The Trade and Administra

one of the prominent members of tion of China," first published in well-known in connection with China which they have published under The name of Professor Giles is so

the Chinese intelligentsia who 1907 and

have written Aubsequently revised.

a series of essays I found also his four volumes duction to this audience.

that probably he needs no intro the above title. "East India Company Trading in must remind you of his entertain the volume would be unpleasant

Yet I China" interesting.

The publishers announced that In the proface he says that the (1876). His latest effort is Chaos as it does many of the idols wor ing contribution Chinese sketches the end of the Afteenth century in China (1924).

reading for many people "smashing trade with India was cut off be Rodney Gilbert should be mention- alike, in an honest attempt to ar And the name of shipped by foreigners and Chinese cause of the substitution of Tur-

cent events.

of

me

kish for Saracenic power in thoed as a writer of dfstinetion on retive at a Levant. So the anilors searched

truthful picture for a route to India and discovered

Old Forces in New China, China." many new, lands.

A very favourite topic with ling collection, it seemed to

When I had finished this start- And I remember that our first writers, expecially novelists, la the Vice-Chancellor, Sir Charles Eliot, clash between the old statle ideas that members of the old school of told me that it was because of the that are part of the Chinese system learning" would be furious if they Great Wall of China that the Turks of philosophy, and the dynamic read the contents.

outlook of the West. came to Europe,

These hordes of wild horse-men About twenty years awept across Asia hoping to con- American Professor of Sociology unequal treaties primarily, nor by quer unknown Cathay. The Great E. A. Ross wrote "The Changing banditry and militarism in the Wall acted as a breakwater acts China,"

past analysis, nor by official

2go an

This is an extract!- "China is being ruined, not by

on angry waves.

I have read this book three times, obscurantism" but by the "vaga- The recoil of the Turkish horse-lat fairly long intervals, and can

bond-like attitude of life which men sent them back to Europe, recommend it to anyone interested seems to say:- where for more than three cen- in the study of human nature, turies, they have worried the poll- ticlans, and even the soldiers, of many European nations.

Do We Grow Tired? Last year, there appeared an in- teresting book entitled "Facets of the Chinese Question" by E. M. Cull who is secretary of the China Association in London.

"Dog-gone-it! This is a pretty

The same may be sald of George Wicked world we are living in, but Lanning's "Old Forces in New why take it so seriously? Take it China" which also appeared first in essy, boy, for what is the use of 1912. There is one sentence that fussing? Cheer up, and make your is worth remembering to-day. own pile of hay quick, while the

"The Chinese is a born trader. sun shines"

These modern Chinese writers,

ane

Had he been left untrammelled by Interference from his rulers he you see, are In the ranks of the would by this time have bullt up a pessimists, The last sentence in He lived for years in the Far commerce which in all probability the book refers to "the hollow, re East. By the nature of his present would have been many times verberant laugh of old China, at work he is kept closely in touch greater than it now is; he would the touch of whose breath, every with the commercial and political have settled all differences of flower of enthusiasm, and hope affairs that affect Anglo-Chinese opinion without war; he would must wither and die."" trade.

thus have enriched his country in

Yet China remains to-day the It is curious, therefore, that he endless ways."

most numerous nation, the appears to be reluctant to enter Lady Hosie has written two people that has been frrepressible fully into contemporary problems. books Two Gentlemen of China for at least forty centuries, the One obtains the impression that he and "Portrait of a Chinese Lady." great enigma of the world. sighs for "the good old days" and They have been praised by re- Production For The Masses. is not sanguine about the future. [viewers, although most men will It presents a problem that can. Does he think that all of these new think them "Sloppy" with excess of not cense to fascinate anyone who ideas about sociology, science and sentiment.

thinks about it. mass-production will in the end fail I confess that I found her gush-ginning of

For we have arrived at the be to affect life in China? Does he ing style irritating.

world-civilisation eling to the idea that there will be you like that sort of thing-well, worker, print in the hands of mil If, however, which has placed power behind the ne changes due to the moderns such that is the sort of thing you like. lions in Asia, and has filled the

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mass China must count in the

The Wallet of Kai Lung“. is an age of mass production, of

The Psychologists at Work. Let us now consider books con- cerning svefal customs and politi-the cal problems.

|ILASS.

I have already mentioned Dr. H H. Smith's great

This is the most mirth-provoking no one will deny that China has production for the masses. And contribution "Chinese Characteristics." Second that has come my way. It is so full volume concerning life in China only to this is his "Village, Life in of sly humour, and yet so true to prevall and the world has become Modern Industrial methods now |China."

He was for thirty five years a

old-style life in China, missionary and as fan as I know he Kwei Yang. Kat Lung-professed our of work because of some uproar Kai Lung sets out for the city of People in Manchester are thrown In many respects a single unit. wrote five books. It seems un- necessary to give extracts from his to have no fear, remarking with in China; the peculiar prejudicea two classics, because every page is extempore wisdom, when warned at of Hollywood determine the char well worth reading.

of his life.

a previous village, that a worthless

Anglo-Saxon race that appear

on,

No one visiting China, should garment covered one with better acters of the representatives of the fail to buy them. They are the profection than that afforded by an the screens in Asia open sesame to so many halls of army of bowmen." knowledge about the most numer

Dr. Hu Shih is appalled by the However, he is held up by Lin ous and a very likeable people.

Yi, a noted brigand. He explains poverty and ignorance in Chick. At times argusing, always accur to Lin that it is an unfortunate deifying the makers of tools", ha Our forefathers were quite right ate, this missionary also was not mistake; and that the exalted Man cries; and again "there la no such sanguine about the future of the darin, very richly apparelled, who thing as a purely material civilisa country in which he had spent most on the way to render homage to tion when man first made fire by Lin, is two or three II to the East accidentally drilling wood the in Intellectual Turbidity,

fa fact he had recently, passed him vention was regarded as such a The Lata Sir Charles Ellot in his and unfortunately mis-directed him spiritual thing as to be attributed Letters from the Far East" (1307) in error. mentions the pecullar spell which "However distinguished a Man to one of the greatest goda." Young China will have none of the China casts on Europeans It darin ho may be, It is dtting that obliges almost everyone who writes I should first attend to one whose attitude of Gandhi and Chesterton,

looking-backwards-with-longing about it to discuss the characteris manners and accomplishments be-

. Novels About Chính tics of its inhabitants tray him to be of the Royal House,"

Writers on Elypt and Indis do replied Lin Y, with extremelten what might be called a not trouble much about the pay affability. "Precede me, therefo chology of

Indians, to my mean and uninviting hovel, but many

while gain Psy-

honour than I

can resa

clos

[your])

And

No one yet seems to have yet

class novel about China;

It is true that last year Miss Stella Benson published: "Tobit Transplanted" and that no less, a Hugh Walpole wrole book of 1991; not alt