To the Editor of the "Norru-Cuina Dairy News."
Sir,—I read a different lesson from the one drawn by Mr. Rodney Gilbert on the facts reviewed in his longer article in your issue of the ith instant. He writes in disillusionment of he figure to whom he looked for the fresh inspiration and energy which might speed China in the direction of a securer order of public life. If the usual fate of the political soothsayer has now overtaken him, it is due, I think, to the Jack of balance and objectivity in his critical treatment of the issues of the day. He has hitherto emphasized the purely personal element in our national politics rather than the impersonal factor of democratic doctrine which the Revolutionary—transaction of 1911 has added to Chinese political thought. And it is not a little curious that this error should
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.