The Author of "China in Si ign and Symbol" Takes Leave Thowe eho are familiar with the delightful volume, "Chis Sign and Symbol," published about 'a year ago, are equally favliar with the name. of te author, "Are joules Graste, soho. ta teaving Shanghat to-morrow on board the str, Saarbruscken' for Europe.
Mrs. Crane has been identified swith the study of China in several aspects since she first came out to country in 1919. Recently she received the distinction of being 7 ked to join the Incorporated Sow ciety of Authors, Playwrights, and Composers in London, an organiza-ion which counts among its mem-Bers such distinguished patrons as 'Thomas Hardy, James Barrie, A. A, Milne,, Sir Arthur Pinero, Ramsay 'MeDonald, Somerset Maugham, Clemence Dane, H. G. Wells, and others, to list only a few -of the names' well known to the public.
"China in Sign and Symbol" is directly responsible for the honour which an invitation to join. the Society represents, but Mrs. Or has delved into other phases of Li that the present obstacles to travel among the Chinese did not exist only a few years.ago, Then, it was the aim of officials to give every assistance possible to travellers whose reasons for the journey were made clear to them, Before coming to China, Mrs. Crane had been active in suffrage jand child welfare movements in America. She was the press chairman of Mrs, Frank Vanderlip's Assembly District of Suffrage in 1917, Jand was the only paid press chairman during the New Yrok state suffrage campaign. With the end Jof the fight for women's suffrage Mrs. Crane turned her attention to child welfare work. Moreover, during the Food Conservation programme of Herbert Hoover during the Orient as well, Tt will e|1917 and succeeding years, Mrs. Yemembered that in 1921 her pub-Crane showed her versatility ication "The Christian Occupation entering this work, Aided by the "N, of China" received considerable Y. Tribune" in publicity, large food notice for the clear presentation of demonstrations outlining the var-current missionary. problems, This {oe feed vale wore was a°colection of statistics her, heraetter, "ale cee aay concerning missionary work in China turned her attention to the con. and it labelled the compiler as a ditions: under which women and discerning observer of missions and world. hole effortn in this part. of thelthe efforts which "sbe"'and' other children worked in America public-spirited women put forth in Mrs. Crane spent several years|this connection undoubtedly had in Poking where her work on the signs and symbols of China received its inspiration and where the data which makes the book so readable was collected, During her residence in the North, Mrs, Crane, itlso, made a trip to Inher Mongolia and' there saw the Living Buddha filmed at Dolan Nor, the capital of this acetion of Mongolia, "Many into anecdotes can be told by about this trip. two wife of the Living Buddha mur. dered the number one wife and then swore it was the "little devil" which looked out of the camera that. accompanied the foreign party, is only one among the many.
Describing this' journey, Mr shows clearly to her hearer great influence in the betterment of conditions through legislation, Mrs. Crane hopes to spend some in Europe, She will visit in Vienna for a considerable period and have opportunity to sce a number of people formerly resident in Shanghai who axe planing top the winter in the Austrian 'Whether or not she wilt ever return to China, after having return ed to America for a time, from Europe, is a matter of doubt, but this will not interfere with her! future publications about China, the material for which has been' collected by the delightful author during her stay here,—L.B.W,
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