"SuANGHA oP TO-DAY: A. SouveNtR AwsuM oF Tumery-ti cur VaNorxe Pamwrs-or max MoDet with an Introduction itor, "North-" more substantial and -impressive evidence of what foreign effort' has contributed, by way of conerete achievement atid precept, towards the rescue of China' from the morass of feudalism, is to be adduced than this remarkable collection of -pictures of Shanghai Jot to-day. Aladdin and his magic lamp seem trite in comparison, when tone pauses o reflect upon the re-natively brief span which separates the dreary mud fiats to which the Chinese, im the plenitude.of their] superior culture, consigned the unwelcome foreigner to dwell,-and the marvelous modern architectural panorama which now unfolds itself to the gaze-of the amazed visitor.
Publications of this character can never be too highly commended, and the one under review fulfills a doubly valuable function.. Something of what the cinema has done to supplement the printed page, measure of the reality such as the motion-picture has impressed upon the erstwhile sceptic who was. prone to condemn hearsay with the conventional "There ain't no such beast!", is reflected in the present volume which cannot fail to convince jour kin in the respective homelands that there may, after all, be something to be said: for "imperialistic tyranny" re terday ed on the *hapless Celestial.
Apart from this very major consideration, these prints of familiar] seenes must come -as a -weleome souvenir to him who has known Shanghai, but is no longer of it. Even to those of us who still reside here, their very familiarity brings pleasure.
The publication is of no less] interest from the mechanical view-
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