We draw special attention to the leaflet on ''National Humility Days: of China" as taught to Chinese: schoolboys, a translation of which appears to-day in another column. The reader who sends it to us says that it appears to form part of a book entitled Teacher's New Material for Primary. Schools," published by the Commercial Press, and he found it, accidentally, in the hands of one of his own sons. As -one reads the list of humiliation days, there are some about. which foreigners, as a class and irrespective of nationality, cannot but have some twinges of conscience. On others a perfectly clear and just case can easily be made, though argument does little good in such instances, As a whole the enumezation appears _unobjectionable. One regets the reference to the "opium war," a phrase of which the injustice and inaccuracy have. been proved by so dispassionate a writer as Mr. H. B. Morse. But unless the translation "has been bowdlerized, which we do not think, knowing our correspondent, there appears no suggestion of antiforeign teaching. It is a tragic thing that whereas other schoolboys are taught to remember national days of. glory, Chinese boys must be taught to remember days of shame. What one would like to know is whether the teacher's manual draws the moral. We have no desire to preach, still less to advocate political propaganda at school. But a list of national humility days ought surely not to go unaccompanied by some emphasis on the, simple cardinal virtues, for lack of which among Chinese mandarins those days would never have occurred.
"Peter Pan" on the Movies "Peter Pan" will be one of the next great moving picture shows. The Paramount people have secured the assistance of Sir. James Barrie in its production, and they announce that. "Sir Barrie himself will supervise the filming of the picture in England." With so much talent engaged upon it, and with such a wonderful subject to work upon, the picture ought to be one of the masterpieces of the screen. There are certain sub-, jects which are bound_ to succeed on the movies. Oliver Twist," for one, makes a splendid show, whereas it. is difficult to do much with O. Henry's stories. It has been tried, but there is too much reading matter to be inter-palated. Then How they are going to treat the works of some other authors, now working for the Paramount company, it is difficult to guess. While we rejoice in the prospect of renewing acquaintance with "Peter Pan," it must be more a matter of curiosity than anything else to discover how Elinor Glyn's imaginings will be transferred into pictures. Yet this also is being done in the meantime.
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