Exruse Omenrat, Mixture—By Gilbert Collins, "Methuen. London, In "Extreme Oriental Mixture" by Mr. Gilbert Collins: the author makes his readers conversant with Chinese life and customs in a style through which there runs a happy of humour.
Mr. Collins can certainly tell a story and in the telling he instruct while he entertains, In this has ina series of short tales set himself to give life to the pictures of characters many of which we in China have in the past felt we know only too well, but thanks to Mr. Collins" manner of presenting them to us we have been compelled to join him in finding them entertaining.
'The' book commences with idants on the voyage out in which Mr, Collins describes the tried voyager and other types of character one usually "meets on steamer.
The last tale "The China Pony" shows that he has a great capacity for grasping character for it is seldom that one reads such a true description of our friend, Mr. Collins can also writ more serious ein for in "Little Miss Harmony" he writes with true note of pathos on the life of singing girl and as it occurs in the middle of the book it forms by contrast an admirable interlude,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.