By Anruur po C. Sowmnay.
Could Mr. Stanley Rice, the author of "The Challenge of Asia" (John Murray, London), have had the choice, he could not have hit ona better time than the present for the publication of this book.
Ho mistaking the signs of the times, and these show that Asia, or at least a very large part of the people of this continent are coming out with a direct challenge of the supremacy of Europe and America.
After the first. sharp encounters that the various Asiatic peoples had with the mations of the West—in Which term America must also be jneluded—the forter, through tary weakness, were forced to bow! before the latter and to acknow. ledge, outward! Toast, that Furope was. Asi was the first to give way before the masterful energy of the white races. China stuck out against it for a time, but in the end she, too, was forced to give way. But while India passed under the actual rule of a. Western nation, China Succeeded in maintaining' her territorial integrity comparatively intact, Both, however, were foreed to acknowledge Western supremacy.
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