Two interesting addresses were delivered at the Saturday Club meeting, Mr. H. Middleton giving excellent account of "the irrigation of the Punjab" and Mr. David ZT. Yui, wa. (Harvard)
waking on " Education and Democracy in China," Sir Havilland de Sausmarez presided over a large attendance.
Mr. Middleton began his address by saying that as a member of the Indian Public Works Department ho had, in addition to his service on the railways, been engaged on work in connexion with public buildings, roads, and irrigation schemes, An Arid Waste. ge number of people in (the speaker continued) who are in. the habit of taking houseboat trips on that fine piece of engineering known as the Grand Canal, the main features of a work of this kind will bs more or less familiar, but there is this difference who would come in as the Indy's champion, without any success ither with her or with her hus-between most of the canals in the Punjab and the grand canal of North China, that whereas the band, One feels that, according to his lights, Sir Jeaae is genuinely in love with his wife, exacting as his notions of love are. We also get a suggestive picture of—the li creat machine of the International Bread Shops by which Sir Isaac gets his wealth, and we must not forget to mention Susan, the humble instrument of Lady Harman's dash for freedom and the unconscious source of her crusade on behalf of the bread shops girls. As we have said, there are pages vhich might be better in place in a magazine than a novel. But it is all very attractive reading and Lady Harman is a character to dwell long in the mind. latter is mostly used as a means of communication and for transport of the former are design with the object of bring.
arg" and perennial water supply to immense tracts of waste land which supported neither man nor beast because of the extreme scarcity of that life-giving element, water. Before thes> canals were built, there were in the Punjab im mense tracts of sandy waste on which no green thing but a species of cactus would grow on account of the very meagre rainfall, which averaged in some places barely a dozen showers ina year, These enormous stretches of territory could, therefore, produce or support nothing in the way of crops or flocks and herds except that ugly and vicious but very strong and most useful beast, the camel.
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