Valuable Paper by Mrs. Bartlett at the A. W. C. Literary Dept.
At a meeting of the Literary Department of the American Woman's Club held last Friday afternoon, Mrs, Wi W. Bartlett gave a most learned and exhaustive discussion of the question of Feudalism—''An Advance or a Retrogression?" She illustrated her talk by means of maps and charts and, in introduction, explained the extreme difficulty of obtaining material with which to study the history of the period. Records of this feudalistic period, which began in the Chou Dynasty, stand at the very dawn of letters so that the history of the time has to be more than translated, it has to be transformed, Moreover, the Chinese conception of history as a simple record, relating only facts, is one which fails to perceive the trend of movements. As yet, the feudal period is almost an unexplored era of Chinese history to Western students.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.