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REVIEWS.

The Woman in the Firelight. By Ouren

SANDYO. London: John Long, Ltd..

Not a book for the immature and inex- perienced, but a book for the mature and experienced. Such a diotum will indicate that "The Womou in the Firelight" is a decidedly modern novel, one that will sell well. It is written with power and dramatic effect. designed to show that a demi-mon- daine ran have the soul of an artist and the heart of a woman-and the authoress carries the reader from chapter to chapter with the most intense interoit.

The China Year Book 1912. By H. T

MONTAGUE BELL, S., AND H. G. W. WOODHEAD. London: Routledge & Sous. The

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expect from a skilled manipulator of English prase; but it is a piece of nico writing and handles delicate subjects with: a light touch in an attractive way. restraint which the authorces refers to as her domirant feature in childhood and early

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that came into her later life; but she intro not even when she mentions the strong love duces a very human-touch when she deals with the ideals and aspirations of mother-i bed and closes on the high note of realisa tion. We have seen it stated that the authoress is a well-known and successful novelist.

The Woman-Hunter. By Anabrija Kenzaly,

London: Stanley Paul & Co. This has been described as the most power- ful story Miss Konealy has written. It is a passionate love story and at the same time profound study in the psychology of the emotions. Divided into two parts, the fret deale, with the life of a beautiful woman capable of the fullest treasure-of-love-for the man she has wed. He is an East End clergyman of an axestic type, whose devation to the Mastor's works impels him to with- draw from his wife's society in the home while using her as an assistant in his ministrations amongst the people. remains a maid while tied to him by the marriage bond, and when he dies from the temptation of another woman--a Magdalene who sets her cap at him-and enters a Trappist monastery, he disappears from the story and leaves his wife to shift for her- welt. a year, she seeks a retreat in Dorset, where With her private income of £200

China Year Book," which made its neighbouring squire the woman-hunter--- first appearance this year, is a work that

comes into her life. His waving of her is] will commend itself to all interestul in, or

no commonplace affair. The passion of the strong man re-awakes the natural instincta connected with, China, and its future

of the woman, but her strength of character editions will be attentively watched as acts upon him and sweetens and beautifies farnishing an annual record of the enuntry's his life and induces him to perform several His proposal of progress. The need and usefulness of such acts of ronunciation.

iN made marriage

in extraordinary a work is apparent at once as the com-phraseology, such, surely, as pilers remark, there is no lack of books on before used by a mon in lore. He beliores Chine, but there is no book that contains that "Love should be free and spontaneous, such a mass of 'detailed information in so with no obligations or compulsion but its wa. Marriage na lifelong bandage from compact a form.

The wide scope of its which there is no escape is a curse and an usefulness is indicated at once by a glance abomination.

The dearest woman, down the list of titles of chapters-Products, if one were chained to her without sboice Trade Statistics; Defence, Finanes, Land, af release, might well become an incubus. And, so true is this, that under the presont and so forth; or it may be still better system few men except the Tomlinsons of roulized by selecting almost any subject conlife-marry until they have ceased to cure nected with China and turning it up in about women further than as domestic necessities. The thrill and buoyancy of the very full index. Features that are

freedom are the very soul of love. Love is particularly welcome are the copious transla- not a thing that can be kept in a marmainde tions of the Constitutional Code, Judicial pot and served up daily on the breakfast Code, and many others; the texts of the table. A man may be free and absolutely faithful. Indeed, men are unfaithful often Hukuang Loan Agreement and of Sir John because they are hound. They slip the lonsh Jordan's Opium. Convention of last year are not because their mate, but because the also printed in full. It was very unfortunate Heash, galls" and so on Our readers must for the compilers that the work was in the find out for themselves how Nerissa Hart- press when the revolution broke out, for it! has put out of dato some lifty pages dealing with the Constitutional Reforms, and has further prevented the publication of the full lists of the Metropolitan and provincial officials which are such desiderata ju a work of this sort. This will doubtless be remedied at the time of preparation of the next edition. by when we hope the official will be less ephemeral theo are some of the present local mndarius. The chapter on Government will, of course, have to be entirely recast, and then it would be as well to include, in addition to the names of the Chinese high officials, a list of the Com-womanhood nover shaken off altogether, missioners of Customs at every part; they are at least of as much importance as the beads of missionary colleges and universities who are now honoured with record in this Year Book. Of the statisties contained in the book, a very large proportion are drawn from the Customs returns, and these are by far the most reliable of all that are given: it is to be hoped that in the next edition the con- pilers will be permitted to draw still further on the Castors' publications, and include Mr. Norman Simw's valuable tabular state- ment and map, illustrative of China's natural products, that appears in the Cus toms General Report for 1911.

A large quantity of statistics furnished by the Chinese Metropolitan Bouds are also given, but those, though interesting, are not of such high value, on account of the habit prevalent among local officials adapting their returns to fit their preconenired ideas, The historical notes given on various sul jents will also be appreciated; but the chief merit of the work is this--that it makes a very successful effort towards conipressing in one volume all the essential concrete facta known of the China of to-day, and presents them simply as plain unvarnished facts, without digressing" on vain theories, Par- haps there never was a time when suck a cold, dispassionate statement of the hard facts of China was so much needed, for, while pessimists on every hand are question- ing whether China can possibly-elevato-ber- self or drag herself out of the backwater into which, they say, she has drifted, we are here given substantial evidence of the pro- gress she has already unde. We are shown à definite ndrance in the navy, which, fechle though it still is, will now be found to he larger than, in the absence of a Chinese Navy List, most people imagined. The same applies to the army, which is now seen to number well over half a million men (Whitaker's Almanse puts it at about half this strength), These figures seem to be comparatively accurate, which more than we would like to say for those on Finance, Apart, however, fram the question of the accuracy of the figures, we are shown a broad picture of China as she appeared immediately before the great revelation of October inst: we are shown a country striv... · ing to develop itself, in every direction. the Year-Boole-touchen-en-most-sides-of- China, and there is scarcely any feature described that would, not, in its present development, be anrecognizable to a man knowing only the China of twenty years ago. We are shown a country endeavouring to organize itself in every phase of its aational life; we are shown a country with a rapidly growing railway system and with a steadily increasing debt. Facts such as these are of the utmost value--indeed, they are the essential data-in a consideration of the future of the Chinese Republic: the progress made by the land right up to the end of the Empire is here, defined more or less exactly, and will serve, by comparison with futuro editions of the Year Book, to measure the progress made under the Re public. In the present state of China ang thing that helps to a better knowledge of hor is welcome-bow much more sich an encyclopaedic collection of facts as contained in the volume under notice. The compilers Are Mr. H. T. Montague Bell, B.A., formerly Editor of the North China Daily News, and Mr. H. G. W. Woadhead, Editor of the Peking & Tientsin Times.

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