IV, No. 6, Dec. 1922) the. unpunctuality of which has always been its one weak point, is late as usual, and is, also as usual, well worth waiting for, both in quantity and quality; and if, as we learn with more sorrow than surprise, this is the last issue, we can but admit that the Review sets in a blaze of glory.
When the play is over and the curtain is about to fall, the actors group themselves before the audience to make their final bow, and the producer is called forward to share in the ovations. Something rather like this seems to have taken place here; for most (though by no means all) who have taken a prominent and helpful interest in the Review are represented directly or indirectly in this final issue.
It begins and ends with the late Editor, the frontispiece being his portrait and the last pages his obituary; between these lie contributions from some of his warmest supporters.
Chavannes' "Introduction to the Documents Chinois Découverts par Auwrey Stein'" is concluded, and thig second instalment, as valuable og the first, is as much more interesting than it as the deepest feelings of a man's heart outweigh in interest the details of his business. After giving more information on, the personnel, the equipment, and the duties of the frontier garrisons, we are shown through the poets their homesickness, their sufferings, their despairs; and we can almost believe with the Chinese that the spirits of those who built the Great Wall still haunt the scenes of their misery, and that their cries can heard on the wild night winds of that frozen bleakness by their descendants in exile, Professor Parker adds to his previous translations of Sun-tzu two Chinese appreciations of this much misunderstood philosopher—one from shortly before the Christian era, and one from the reign of Ch'ien Lung (1786). Mr. A. C. Moule, who is an authority on everything connected with the ear-Tier Christian activities in China, gives a translation of the famous passage in the Ming Shih where the first arrival of the Jesuits is recorded with such charming naivete and such maddening smugness. Monsieur de Saussure has a highly original paper on the antiquity of the Yin-Yang Theory, which is sure to provoke lively discussion. Mr. Arlington, who has all along been zealous and interesting contribu-for, brings his last batch of "Sinological Notes" to a close; and though there is unfortunately nothing from the pen of Professor Giles, we have an appreciative review of the second edition of his "Gems of Chinese Literature," which is truly described as "a beautiful reprint of al beautiful work,""
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