Tie Customs service has been used for the benefit of the whole people of China during. this great stewardship. It hes not been used for the benefit of any political group or individual. It has saved the credit of Cina at a period when the despoilers were earmarking every Mrs, Hobart with a vivid pen desleribes the Hunan seryants—curious compounds of sloth and quick temper—, the city, and the foreign community, and Here let me Mrs. Hobart's own. words: idea somali "trepidation
rear iron. gates (of the Teens the sternaon eae Seether hinges: London ana We thy ten with within the portals pot that the in mute, coming Into my drawing-F00} saa tes tasse Tone the majesty the Ring with very dapper French:
ae in with his wit ind still" they. Keep emir 2 them T'see my durbar 4 stand tives, {feel assured of something good when. ever a new story comes from his Nor is one disappointed i "The Northing Tramp". It has all the fascination of Mr. Wallace woven about the adventures of a charming, young American lady, Miss October \Jones, and the Northing Tramp, who, of course, is not a tramp at all, in [the State of New York.
rapidity, and introduces an almost The moves with great kaleidoscopic variety of characters, all of them. well drawn and some of [them vastly entertaining, Of course. it is, upon reflexion, a quite impossible story, but Mr. Wallace tells it so well that one does not neties that, There is a pathetic note struck in the death of the Professor which is sympathetically recounted. Mr Wallace'must know the country well and he describes it well. Altogether itis a book well up to Mr. Walbace's high standard, I should imagine [the film rights would be worth a lot of money. -By the way, where are Some|the Goby Desert and Urzxa? Can thes be the Gobi Desert and Urga? Tt is a pity to spoil. a good book by typographical mistakes of this
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