The Archive · 1926

Opium Propaganda

"Dragon Lure" apparently was not good enough to find a home Publisher (unless the fact that it! seems to be written by a Chinese! constitutes the Commercial Press a home publisher) but to treat it with' complacence (as some reviewers have) is puerile. True, it is not a work of genius. Chinese back from America are made to say "Softly, softly, friend, as Shakespeare puts iw" fas well say "It is fine day as old Milton eri mouth, Ha! easy to be superior, The novel is at least sincere. Give that. Still, in the first chapter repeatedly, appalling impos sibilities occur. Such as: (a). A Returned Student, after a few years abroad, gets to Peking and cuddenly remembers he has a wife?

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account