29th Oct.
EvEN those who have lived longest in the Yangtze Valley and have taken the most intelligent interest in their geographical environment will enjoy the article with the above title in the September issue of the Contemporary Review by Mr. Archibald Little. Mr. Little begins by saying: "Thirty-eight years have passed singe Lord Wolsaley, then a subaltern in the army that invaded Peking in 1860, formed the opinion that Europe stood in peril from the Mongol race, Englishmen living in China who knew the Chinese people by long personal contact were startled upon reading the celebrated article in the Nineteenth Century in which England was threatened with the yellow spectre, and asked themselves, Can Lord Wolseley be joking, or does he mean some other race than the' mild-eyed, melancholy, lotus-eating'—i-e. opium-smoking—people whotn we know so well? Only the other day' Lord Salisbury spoke of four hundred millions of brave Chinamen; this must surely have been writ sarcastic' but English
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