Tue letter from Mr. F. Hori which appears in another column is fully justified by the facts that have been reported to us by wire. In the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea, as recent incidents have shown, the Russian naval officers have Leen obliged by their proximity to Europe to show some respect for international law, se bue it would alme Alexeieff and Adn yard legality asa inde, and do not even pr bound by the restrictions modern civilisation imposes. The firing on British and German mers at Port Arthur may be explained away by the fact that the Russians at the time were in a state: ost bordering on panic: but the An autcbioby Luella This is a bool than one deserves to be widely road, and which will be interesting to more than ove, class of reader. It is a story of the ing, but there is more in it than dealt with colour has cof taels are but anild examples of imaginative art. But a story like this, while full of interest. is also quite correct within its limit: i is Chinese life and thought from within, by a Chinese. Tt ives us Chinese ch istles in a con-Erets cass, and the young native who writes most of it not only gives us graphic pictures of home life, of official weakness, of Village neighbourliness, pains of An unacceptable expl nation w card-blooded sinking of small mer-travel, but
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