a ip. Lone, By hile tisdall Hobart. acm: Van This ig un autobiographical" nazi ration of 12 years of the life etiam American Tady who describes Serif as, "Homesteading" America's trade frontier in. Chi The author and her husband went rom their honeymoon in a Bodahist temple under the shadow of the Great Wal to live ina bleak white fan's trading-post on the prairies of Manchuria, where Ins. "Hobart as stationed ca Tepresentative of tne of the big all companies. Abs. Hobart. tells of their experiences there end then of their successive fuventures in their subsequent ations, when transferred. in ae:
with "that "Mysterious is the late Sir Robert Hart Sesignated "Service Requirements demanding presence, of any individual at any port" Mra, Bebar ateikingly loyal to "the. Sky-teraper in N. ¥-" and assert boldly that while the old rontiereman individualist and his own master, pet the foreign trade pioneering of Zonday can only be done under the tuapices of the mighty business Corporation, which demands. that ihe fearlessness of the old pioneer blended with the subtle and exact Ing discipline of the new pioneering. Compliance with its polices, Keptance of its eaprit-de corps, ing its Teston of emphasis on whole and not on the individ ave moulded her. In all she to. the. modera find not less to the modern American woman, The book avowedly written for women and fodiented to. men, Bach of her SThomesteads" is. given. a name, "The Cave," the "Godown," ete while the book itself was written Changsha, the "City of the Long Sand."
"The descriptions of Chinese domestic are very well drawn. The fotor-cook,, who ts" erratic. in his ally Jevants with the another loot the wife, but objected strongly to losing face in that connexion. The delicate method by which one tet of servants dislodged a valued but not in swim with local, staff, by hinting that "boy" was in league with opium smugglers, is very. humorously dealt. with. sympathy is shown for a discontented_bride who would willingly have ruined her husband by complaining' that local luxuries did not attain her previous New York standard, and who would threaten to return home and leave him if he would not compel "Skyscraper" head office, to give him a post more in accordance with her views. The situation. in about th May 90 events in Shanghai upon the turbulent Hunanese is clearly narrated, with details which will me ferent every reader.
The book is exceptionally well got up. The printing and illustrations are superb. Even the inside binding paper shows a Chinese land. scape with faint characters deseribing picture.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.