He had s very varied consular career. He took his law in London tide by side with Sir Ernest Satow. He opened the port of Chungking and a hard time he had, finally leav-ina riot over the city: wall, Taming both his feet and suffering much pain during a hurried flight in a boat down river. Referring to this incident, he wrote to me— my husband had followed kim to thy port—"T had to flee the attentions of very suspicious natives," a delicate way of speaking of a mob howling for his blood, He travelled largely in Malaya also, apparently for his own pleasure. There he wrote a long and valuable report to the Marquis of Salis-burg. of "those: days, on the: importance of Singapore as a strategic for the Pacific! letters were full of illumincame a sudden paragraph he wrote, "that if it had not been ie. Burma would be sending ainous old king, day chanced to learn that the tribute. to, China was just start-There had been ito need to sani it for a century or two, of course, or longer: the Burmese had been -afraid to give up the habit, and the new British gover nors had not realized the situation."
Tempering the Wind ight literature" came out, he used to send me such batches of his articles as he deemed suited to my intellect: ancient Chinese folklore, Tartar warfare, Chinese spiritualism: li full of foot-notes referring to others of his numerous On the top brochure would inseribed—"A mon cher collégue—hommages!™ not know which of us enjoyed thi Joke the more, he or I Yme came a request that T would my husband's photograph, with a postscript that 1 mi Author of "Two Gentlemen of China" wondered if I looked aw intelligent After: infinite trouble ceeded in getting my husho hig consular uniform and down to the photographer, T enclosed one of these photograph much amused. By return "Whatever. clothes has your hushund got He answered that it was 80 long since he had made himself miserable in hiy that he had forgotten what it looked like, a my appearance. "Your hair seems to have grey streaks.' is that a fur collar at the back ly disapprove of wor en goaing about backs of their necks eover-
Murderers and Professors ced him for a photo of Ko replied that hho had not been photographed for und others, so constantly id, that newspapers actually them 10 shillings and six-po for photographs of "murderers, proette and other notan them that in that would come and be photographed and her little dog free of charge, too. They said they would be do-'The photograph of two was on his desk now himself by guile for me daughter, az she kept all his ph Knew him, and I liked ta have it His students at Manchest whom he loved to tease. revelled He only once attend-a Senate meeting: he made a contribution to the diss. sion which war aver forgotten. He was Professor of Chinese at Victoria University, A discussion ud On, to the exact status, dignity, emoluand number of students tached to a Readership. At last rose and uttered a solitary sengence wi brought down the house:
speak he said, Reader in say that, in my own experience, there is no status and no dignity, there are no emoluments and no students!"
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