There are some people who write interestingly, and others who write! tern, he gives her in marriage at an early age to Prince Roceapalumba, a Roman noble with medimeval mind and a mother of Machiavellian tendencies. As an ac-
"just another book" the critic] 4 jaaintance said of her:— ig apt wearily to remark, but this cannot be said of "Rahwedia" by C. Harold Smith, of which we have been sent an' advance copy, and which i we understand shortly to acknowledge her claim to be. lo timate. tekneredes ce everything ie, art S'S tance of phar nang Naioes musi, ate poles never intorters with yeu. But if greatly appreciated by those interested in the religious life of the Chinese.
Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhist and Mohammedanism, ate set forth with clearness and with understand: ing; we know of no book which in such Little space gives such satis factory descriptions of: these: great] systems. The newer of these, and the springing some modern movements where Londoners have amused them. selves since Tudor times. He ha: most to say about the theatres and the pleasure gardens, but he deals with everything except the taverns and clubs. If he is unfair to anything it is to pugilism, and in all fature editions of his book he must add to the list of present-day boxing-holla Premierland, in Back Church. Lane, which, his successors couple of centuries hence. will find through Jo China, the Philippines and the Malay' archipelago, appropriately finishing at the feet of a holy man in Rangoon. The author describes his experiences in the lands he travels through with considerable skill.
He records his reflexions; on the reli igione, morals and customs of the, inhabitants with the happy irresponsibility of.an-experienced globe trotter.
He hes "dredged the. dictionary for adjecbe on the market in Shanghai. The author when hardly more than a boy went on. ® sailing ship to New Zealand, and for a time settled there. He moved about New Zealand, got lost, and for. a time lived with Maori tribe, the life of which he describes sin a most. interesting! manter,: He tells. us-that the jhe has written is a "true Romance it certainly i for he fell 1 eho ial ea 'SE: Cemplenion, ber hale srtletid fast her: conver in love with a Mao fare recorded, and with the chapter on the "New Thought Tide" we are brought to the present days _And introduced to the pressing: problems of religious life in. this' cousitry. The history of Christianity in-China, from its first introduction, is.giver and due recognition is accorded: to} the splendid: work of- the, Roman} Catholics. It is refreshing to find]
good-Trish Presbyterian, speaking! one of the most picturesque, of London's places of entertainment. And his successors will delight in.
writes. in' un old-fashioned Mr. Berédford Chantellor, for style, and hie strictures: on. contemporary castoms will make: admirable quotations for the social histories of our age. Meanwhile we may gratefully avail ourselves of his researches int the London of the past.
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