Tuere are times when one feels it particularly hard to be away from one's native country, and to be absolutely and completely removed from the great circles of political and social movement. The expressive but not very classical phrase "out of the hunt" expresses the situation of those who have lived long in the East. For though the dwellers in Shanghai (specially those amongst them who glory in the word " cosmopolitan") are apt to tall of the large-mindedness and superiority to narrow prejudices which mark the residents in this place, we fear that the verdict of the world would be against them. And, indeed, it is within the compass of possibility that the Shang. bai resident might be called narrow-minded by a dweller in London or
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