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Fourthly I would "certainly place · Mr. Ku Hung-wing. Nobody could write half to successfully about the Spirit of the

Chinese People" 414

Chinese and Ku. Hang-ming, one of the old

One calling himself Piddington," writ-school and an MA. of Edinburgh Univer- nity, is the most competent" of all to do inig in the N. Daily Nire a short while so, judging by results. His volume of the agy, names Yule's "Marco Polo," Baker's (above tame is rather spoiled by little man- Travels in Western Chiu," Smith'snerisms, such as a constant repetition of such superduous words as I want to say Chinese Characteristics," -Ka Hun here," say again," and so on, a habit Aling's 3 Chinese Oxford Movement," which has nou left him yet. He soars, Doolittle's Social Life of the Chinese,"too uupractical heights in his idealira-

tion of what he calls the real Chinese) And The China Coast Tales" by Mrs. gentleman, who seas to be the paragna Giles (Lise Boshim), as the six best broks of all virtues, but as hard to find usnj un China. He asks; "Can your realers sedlo in a haystack, if he is to conform suggest any other books that ought to be to Ku Hung-ming's description of his

qualities. added to my list ?**

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I would maintain firmly, that the out standing writer un China, who employs the English language as a medium of expr ssion, is B. L. Putnam Weule Putnam Wenle (Lennox Simpson). attains heights which no other writer of to-day has ever reached in treating the theme China. I do not refer to his latest political servers. His volume" The Truth about China and Japan" is certainly not a masterpiece. But, quito upart from his from **Indiscreet Letters renowned Peking." which is almost atlasic, he has descriptions of Chinese fife and of Chi hese nature in his fictional works which are

brilliant.

But his general summary of the gentle nature of the Chinese, and of the Chinese woman, must appeal to all who sym- ipathise, with the country.

Qar of the best short booka on China is The Civilization of China" by Mr. H. A. Giles. It containg most accurate account of China and her inhabitants, and an outline of her history and litera- ture which to a newcomer ought to be invaluable. It is a much better book than China and the Chinese, by the aame author, which appears to contain almost as much fiction as fact."

Lastly it is impossible to overlook those twin-books of the admirable and virile Dr. Arthur Smith "Chinese Characteris. ties" and "Village Life in China" should be read by all foreigners coming to China who have the time and the sense not to H. G. Wells has just said, writing fritter it all away in dancing. These books are most entertaining, even if they the American Magazine, that most novel-reading is akin to a life wasting exaggerated. Nobody has habit of nexisted reverie, a misuse of the mind." But novels, criticizing life, noves fundamentally aggressive, ne Far from worthless, he says, because they help us to a better understanding of its institutions and customs.

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sane and mellow outlook on affairs than the now venerable Doctor, and despite some few absurd remarks anent the Chi- Them are his own words, relative to the nese, he has a fine sense of proportion.

theme China:-

2 No other subject could afford wider scope for ingenious hypothesis, pro- found generalization and triumphant dogmatism."

According, he has an amused scorn For those who de generalise dogmatically about the Chinese

Putnam Weale in his novels ** The Eter. nal Priestess. The Altar Fire," and

The Hunan Cobweb," and, in a some what lesser degree in his "Temp'e Bells and Forbidden Boundary," has certain flashes of insight which are almost stagger ing to a student of this fascinating racr To sum up, the following are the six in their essential truthfulness." A simple best books and the six best authors on sentence, at even a mern word here and China, as seen by Achilles. It is to be there enveys sich u sense of discovery | hoped thas not everybody will agree. and observation that only those who in. **When people agres with me I always timately appreciate the intricacies of irs feel that I'must he wrong," wrote the inneurs chinois'tan quite estimate its value excellent Wilde Of course, hooks relat nun index of accuracy and, art. Being to the study of the language, econo- sires, Putnam Weale has these two supreme qualifications in writer of good fiction: he is a master of press, and he has a wonderful wense of beauty. For a description of China and the Chinese, Put nom Weale is the man to go tn., Most people art prejudiced against him! This is unfortunate. For he is undoubtedly the most successful writer on the Chines from the point of view of that foremost criterion, intrinsic rerit.

A PARADOX OF STRENGTH.

Next comes, J. O. P.. Bland, In his China, Japan, and Korea," he paints charming pictures of the Chinese common- er rise is his unhappy brothers of war stricken Europe. Fully to appreciate the character of humanity's primordia! older brother, he writes, one must have gone back to the restless sources of our Western learning, heard Bolshevism howl ng at the gates, and realized the eul minative effect of the 'treed of idlividus ism on the minds of the masses. There after China, with all her economic dis tress, seems like a weather-beaten rock of strength and stability in world of un-. rest." He points out that the West ours the East a great debt of reparation. because the method by which it asserted its supremaey, the economic pressure of modern Europe, its earth-hunger, cos mopolitan finance, and man-killing de vices forbade all hope of Chios being able to continue her policy of splendid isola- tion. And in his Houseboat-Days have further delightful pictures of the Chinese tiller, in the fields," who dwells amid the untrodden ways," and who is not to be confused with the raucous mannered Shanghai coolies or the scoun drels of Linchong, who have become con- taminated by various influences prevalent all over the world in these modern. times, w

A LOVER OF OLD CHINA.

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And thirdly, R F. Johnston. His "Buddhist China" and "Chinese Theatre' are the two best books that exist dealing with the subjects named, and withal couched in beautiful language. It is R. F. Johnston, the prose poet who writes thus:-

"It is not only the chanting monks who utter the praises of Buddha in their great pavilions; it is not only from jars of bronze and stone that perfumed clouds rise, daily to the lotus-throne of the compassionate pusa: From the en-waves also come the sounds of a mighty "an- them; the rain that patters on the tem- ple roofs is the rain of the good law that is poured from the unfailing vial of Kuan Yin the winds murmur sutras in the sacred caves and in the spirit-haunted woods; the wild birds in their calling are but. joining in the universal chorus of adoration; and the little white flower

sends up to Buddha from millions of censera, not made by the hand of man, the sweet, fragrance of inexhaustible incengo.17.

And it is RF.J., the lover of Old China, and the penetrating appraiser of the Empress Dowager, who writes then of her influence on her country:-

"Amongst recent imperial patrons of the drama was the ill-starred Empress Dowager Tzu Hai, who, in spite of the epithet great somewhat rather fatuous ly bestowed upon her by Western writers, will surely be held responsible by history for having brought about the ruin of the denasty and the collapse of the throne. Had she contented herself with witness- ing and arranging the theatrical enter tainments which were undoubtedly one of her main sources of enjoyment, and had she refrained from interfering with the reform theasures of the unbappy Em- peror T Taung (Kuang Bau) it is pos sible that China might have been spared. most of the miseries of the pasý 50 years.”

mics, politics, and specialist literature of bistory and particular branches of study' singlegical, have been expressly excluded from this general list in which otherwise much weight-carrying names By Legge, more might More, Hillier and many

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