Frox time to time the Peking Guzette.
8 us glimpses of student life in un, und expecially of the privations which young mon ure content to bear their pursuit of classionl knowledge, There is a very natural similarity between the poor students in Chinn and those in the West, in we far at lent us large numbers of them in ench do suffer severe poverty order obtain education and the onpability and distinction which ils possession confers.
The inland bred young men who learn the humanities and theology, medicine and law, at the Scot univers sities, who cultivate belles lettres on Kittle ontuenl, are nol more jervis persons than the crowds who flock from the country districts in China or vuln, they flog their brains for worry days and nights to obtain the coveted distinction of genduateship. We daresay the popular literature of China contains the stunes of many who have struggled as bravely to tuke honours ever a Souts or German poor stu. dent did; and perhaps the differences between the stories of the Eastern and Western youths would be scutely more those which taraily ative from custom, The various nations of Burope have furnished peculine types of their aindente to novels and romances, Ihe Svutsman, len, raw, and greedy for knowledge, as the beet if not the easiest way tu fortune the Gernin, drinking beer nnd dueling, and yet withal acquiring a patient habit of working slowly and conscientiously at all subjects, discovering truths and errors that hud been passed over by more hasty spirits; the Hugh man, with the classical tastes which Oxford gives or the mnthemnticul science of Cambridge, are all more or less familiar, us are many other national types of stadente, tu renders vf fiction or more serious literature. Perhaps, when we ure better acquainted with this country and people, and are thereby able to appreciate both—which at present we are unable to do, having
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