It was a big task that Mr, Bertrand Russell set himself when he decided te write a bock on the "Problem of China," and while reading his pronouncements on the question one is almost painfully aware that Mr, Russell is very inadequately equipped to grapple with it.
He has made a considerable study of the Chinese question and quotes freely from authorities like Cordier, Giles, Birth and others. He went to these writers for some of his facts and so far his book 1s reliable. It is when we read Mr. Russell's opinions and the deductions he has made from the facts gathered that we differ so much from him that we think he is writ ing sometimes with his tongue in his cheek.
There is a kink in Mr. Russ:'t's outlook on life which makes him hate Americans, British and Europeans and love Chinese, Russians and Asiatics. He reminds the present writer of the Chinese tipsy poet, who sang that the whole world was drunk and he alone sober. Or the Scottish recruit whose mother declared that the whole regiment was out of step with "our Jock." He
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