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Acrom China on Foot: Life in the Interior, and The Reform Vove want. By Enwis J. DINGLE With 107 Instrations. Bristal J. W Arrowsmith, Ltd.; London: Simpkin, Mar shall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd.

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Hankow Riota of Janusey, 1911, ant another on military progress la China. Altogether, as most interesting, we have soon published for wa tare already said, the biok is one of the 30me years, and it should have a resdy sate în the Treaty Ports Mr. Diugld has something to say abort Hongkong and the opening up of trade with Wastora. Chiam, a subjest:wa hope to deal with in a subsequent iampo. Lote-Letters of a Japanese. Edited by G. N.

This is one of the most entertaining books of travel in China that has been published in recent years. It is certainly the most profusely illustrated, and is in erory respect a credit to

MORTEAKE. London: Stanley Fant & Co. Mr. Dingle, spart altogether from considera- relation of human emotion has been called for is To fact that a second edition of this re- tions of the journey he undertook and the hard-

is itself additional testimony to the old saying ships be endured. Most of these illustrations Bro

that all the world loves a lover....It seems to us from photographs taken byy - himself-in regions that too much has been made of the fast that not previously visited by a whifo mau, and they one of the writers of these letters was a Japanese. give a better idea than any words can Doubles his s'ine : of the currespondence sarves of the beauty of the country to make us realise the Japanese attitude toward a Lin Westerd Chion Not that Mr. Dingle is certain questions, bat, on the whole, that dass

not graphic in his descriptions. On the contrary,not waigh very seriously with us. he has a keen senso of colour and a good eye for essential fast is that these are rest love letters The great a beautiful Jundscape, not the result is that in which both the writers have laid bara Thoir paints many a fine picture in picturesque and souls to each other with scarcely an atom of glowing phrase, written for the awal part pa restraint. They a physchological documente the scene bo is discribing while the full power in which one may read, study, watch the de of its bonaty animater his being. What innst velopunut of have cost bim to sit down and write either at not without

lore, pure, doubtless, the end of a day's toilsome journay avist the editor and

of Rex distractions of an inquisitive crowd in a (Chinese would almost have as beliere. Para though of 20 introduction inu, or daring a brief muse of an existing they may have romained indeed, neither Martyl, ascent of a mountain side, only those who live Mare lith nor Kenric Watanaby were strangers travelled far from the haunts of cirilised man can tell.

to the promptings of sex. Passion not only prompts bat speaks through these pages, just Mr Dingle, who was enonged in business in as it has tempered and sweetened the love letters a Singapore newspaper office in 1908, set out of man and woman sjuce they learnt the art of with a companion for Shanghai in the early writing and of putting their feelings to the 1098-49 part of 1909, with the intention of walking text of the written word. But it is not often norons China. Of Ssigɔn, Hongkong and Shang. that twɔ lovers are so equally equipped as to ba hai he does not say much. The trip up the able to express themselves in postiosity, with Yangtao to Hankow and Ichaug was mide, usual by the river steamers, and so there is no, two. We find ourselves in perfect agreement uch delicacy, and with such imagery na these

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reader. It la fron Tekang, with the trip, troduction: "It is seldom that a lover is able through the Yangtan Corges, that the real in to express in any degree the feelings that are ferent of the book bagios, suit we may say at surging in him; still more seldom that a pair | the outset that from this point onwards of lovers are both articulate; and wost till the traveller reaches Bbama there is not a dull pago in the book.

rare of all that two lovers, from the We must confers, uttermost ends of the earth, trainod-in-t- without in the least seeking to detract from traditions wide sa the poles asunder, should not the worth of Mr. Diugle's judgment on matters | only love comprehensively rather than sexually. of which he could have but a scanty personal, but be able to wears between them the tapestry knowledge, that we were a trife disappointed at of words in which the thoughts and feelings his foudeboy to break the continuity of his materialized still palpitate with life." Of the

narrative in order to moralise on things Chinese or to air his own philosophy on civilisation and should finish his story frat and then give his cognate subjects. Peltor thought wa that he

two wo think Mortyl had the ficer nature, the purest most absorbing passion. 1

At times we is "playing up" to her. This we may believe feel that Watanabo is a tride artificial, that he reflections at the end of the chapter, or in a

without sttempting to dotract from the poolio whole chapter afterwards. For sometimes it promptings of his nature or the honesty of his was dificult, at any rate in the first hook – į original intentions to make Mertyl his wife. which deals with his journey as far as Towards the end, there is a sign of justifiablo Tong-ch'uan-fa-to take up the thread of the impatience, almost of temper, in her letters. narrative and follow the author's wanderingaon while his replies, unsatisfying and unsatisfactory, foot. But as we progressed through the moond' are not'atall surprising to anyone who has even a book we began to recognise it as the stpression superficial acquaintance of the Japanese. Her of the author's individuality, his style of literary trust was profound, complete. Like most lovers, composition in fact, and we were pleased instead she had created and gilded an ideal -The at disappointed that he had adopted this style. disillusionmont must have been azornel dis- With a little more attention to his rhaforia appointment to one who loved and idealised. Mr. Dingle might well become one of the most with so complete an intensity. One feels that graphic writers on travel in the English lan. death was a merciful relief, however much one guage. His ornberance of phrase, however, may regret the termination of a young life so sometimes lends him info a tangle, full of promise. Hence there is sometimes ob-curity

We are not disposed to re- idea. He has failing for the misuse of women to avoid lovs entanglements or matrí of gard these letters as a warning to young Eng words-such as notorious in place of note monial engagements with Japanese men. Thora worthy, to take me example, and in some may have been some exceptional traits in Wais instances he uses words that are altogether new 16 us, not justifiably now coinage, but obviously what we may--which are not found in "men of nabe's nature, character, can position – call it mistakes. He would do well to peruse Sven the Oscideat, but just as lore laughs at look- Hedia's last work as an example of clarity of smiths so it langhs at rasial barriers or national style combined with graphic force and interest- { dístinations, and we believe it is possible for the ing narrative and purity of diction.

It is hard to say which we admire moat Dingle's industry in producing such a fascinat Tug volume under so adverse oiroumstances, or his pluck in continuing his journey through Western Chins after havjur his arm broken and lying for weeks at deth's door from accessivo attacks of debilitating malarial fever and dysentery.

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East and the West, provided the individuals are of corresponding social standing and mental and intellectual they are toning to become), to love and wed and live happily an it is for East and East or West and Weak We mit not be misunder stood as "edrocating or supporting what are termed as "mized marriages." What we in tend to imply is that when true love comes, nationality is a matter of no consequence. The fault in Watanabe's love was that it was not as intenso as Martyl's. The physical feeling that enabled him to respond to her letters was tempered by his intellectuality. It is a pity that the letters do not reveal more olearly what

He entered Chisa on March 4, 1909, and be came out at Burma on February 14, 1910. From Chungking, where his companion left him, he travelled on foot to Suifu, vis Luchow; from Sulfu to Chao-t'ong-fu (vid Lao-wa-t'an); sad from Chao-t'ong-fu to Tong-ch'uan-fy, whery he was nursed back to health by Mr. and Mrs. made him act as he did, bringing about the A. Evaus, missionaries, to whom the volume is breaking of the engagement between the two. dedicated in grateful remem banon by Mr The Ascent of the Bostocks. BY HAROLD Dingle. In this portion of the book, STOREY. London: Stanley Paul & Co. he gives a description of the Chao-t'ong Sound, clean and well written are all terms Rebellion of 1910 and devotes Kn in that might be applied to Mr. Storey's novel. teresting chapter to the tribes of North But it has other merits. There are some well. West Yannan and mission work among them. drawn characters, the love episodes are palatable It is in this portion of the book that we think if not vary thrilling, and there is a strain of Mr. Dingle hazırds to express ethnological and | middle-class philosophy, rauning through the other opinions not altogether justified by his story which will make its appeal to everyday. brief acquaintance with China and her peoples, people. And we are all every day people, though The second portion of the book, and in our not always ready to admit the appellation. Mrs. opinion the more interesting portion, slows Bostock, the type of garrulóns, managing busy. a maturity of style and improvement that body, is quits familiar to all of us. may be attributed to the time Mr. Dingle risen in her own little world, and anxions that spent in reflection during his period of her children should do better, like many another, convalescence and intercourse with the mis-middle-class mother with social aspirations sionaries, From Tong-ch'nan-fu he visited The heroine of the story is Carry Bosfook, s Yannan-fu, Tali-fu, the Mekong Valley, Teng Yueh, and the Salween Valley. His do soriptions of scenery are delightfully graphic ho is not without humanr iu bis comments on men and things and in chronicling incidents on the wayside, and some of his remarks on racial characteristics of the peoples in the regions traversed show that he might well take up a elczer study of the Western races and producen valuable work about them..

There are no less than a leren opperdices one a very complete itinerary of his travele in tabalar form: Yunnan Railway end other schemes, one on the

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