Feb. 23.
WE publish to-day the last of Mr. Rodney Gilbert's fascinating articles on his pilgrimage to Canton, doubly interesting in th most of the men he describes a familiar to us all in Shanghai and in their new surroundings they take on a new, perhaps unsuspected aspect. Mr. Tang Shao-yi, in particular, has many friends here who will echo that remark about the charm of his personality and the greatness of his mental powers; and if seems to them that Mr. Tang's best work was done fourteen years ago when he was Governor of Fengtien and the undoubted power behind the viceroyalty of Hsu Shih-chang, doubtless the times we live in are beyond any one man's control. Dr, Sun also we all know well, that strange impressive man, who conveys a sense of power and of having unknown forces at his command, which is all the more striking in contrast with the many dis. appointments that his schemes have encountered. As for Dr. Wu Ting-fang he is surely one of the wonders of modern China; and if he does not ultimately achieve her regeneration, no one will blame the vegetarianism to which his hale and hearty fourscore years so nearly convert us. Of General Chen Chiung-ming we have read enough to make Mr. Gilbert's description the, more arresting. Nine years ago Mr. Liang Chi-chao prophesied that China's problems of reconstruction would finally be solved by some one whose name was not yet even known on the political stage. Whether Mr. Liang had anyone in his mind or not, we
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