"Sun Yat-sen and the Awakening of China" by James Cantho and Sheridan Jones. Jarrold, London.
No more appreciative biographer among Englishmen than Dr. Cantho can be found to tell us of the doings and character of Dr. Sun Yat-sen up to date. The portion of the book written by Dr. Cantho is therefore full of interest from its personal touches and its unrestrained eulogy. In the main we prefer sympathetic appreciation to harsh, cynical criticism, and truth is just tas likely to be reached. Here and there the praise may be too fulsome but the general estimate, given by one who knows, is more apt to be correct than the conjectures or 8i picious of a mere outsider, who possesses no long or intimate acquaintance. This book comes, therefore, Jat an opportune time when Dr. Sun Yat-sen is being weighed in the balance of public opinion.
When the author speaks of Dr. Sun as an "extraordinary man" land as "the most perfect character I ever knew" we are inclined to think, as the author fears the reader think, that his "judge-"warped." This is,
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