"Tum Teactuna or Tie Oto Box."—By fom Macinnes. London' and Toronto: J, M. Dent & Sons, Ltd, Price, $1.56.
In our opinion and according. to that of others whom we asked, Mr. 'Tom Macinnes' "The Teaching of the Old Boy" would have been much more attractive to th reader had the at the beginningingy and the author's} note last. As the book stands, the reader, unless he is aware that Lao T20 (or. Luo Chin) is by named,""The Old Boy," is kept in a state of vexatious uncertainty as to what the author is driving at. Moreover the extraordinarily far-fetched phraseology used by Mr. Mactnnes makes the reading tortuous for English-born readers. This, for example, is how the legend of Lao Tz's birth ning, in the Thistle District] ght Brame Province tablished: 8 Young. mal mut atrailing by hetwelf "along. Footpath across the fields. She saw fae fall, Te was in years before her heaven-sent chil war born. But her appearance. was ever that of a beautiful young] fuatron. It happened at the time of her delivery" that journey. huming the child plum trees At. sun: tun It would be very easy to destroy sentence by sentence the inexplicable praise poured out by Mr. Fry on some of these pictures; but it is unlikely Mr, Fry would agree with this reviewer, who is of the opinion that this style of "art" is not to be encouraged and who is not in sympathy with attempting to apotheoize the hideous by pictures and by years wh he came to form for chis world, he called. the" ON Bos, th ill County" and!
Wiseman's Corner," and even with the term "Old Boy," although to) Chinese this name would be almost}
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