People in America were still interested in books on China, he said, although they were now comes realize that books which presented only glamour or unrealities were to: bbe discounted. What was wanted: he said was a book giving a "solu tion" of the present situation. id further, and not only novels but books of high edveational and artistic value were "best sellers". In this connection Mr. Brett mentioned the poetical work, "Tristram," written by Edwin Arlington Robinson, America's foremost poet, and volume entitled "History of the Rise of American Civilization". The former book sold at the rate of 60,000 copies in one month and the Intter likewise, so that there was no reason to suppose that the public did not have good taste.
Mr. Brett, it will be remembered by those interested in the retailing of books, was one of the publishers who did' much toward establishing a uniform or advertised nett, price" of books, in order to safeguard the bookshops who were brought into fatal competition with department stores, ete,, who could sell books at far below cost.
Onorns have been issued by the Nanking Government exempting telegrams from the Shanghai office of the Anti-Northern Armies from censorship.
Tne Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Quo Tai-chi, is reported by the Chinese papers to have received instructions from Nanking: not to visa passports of foreigners desiring to travel in the interior as it is unsafe because of the civil war and bandits, and himself, only to become later the new wife of the aspiring Moh-Joe, whose conscience proved of such elastic quality as to cause him no pains until he stood face to face with what he could imagine to be simply a ghost, provides a fascinat~ ing narrate Tu conclusion, an edifying quantity of Chinese moralizing, pointing to the heinous endeavours of Moh-joe and to the high virtues of jcalminating happy ending, were read by Mr, Kliene, whose manner of delivery accounted for much of the fascination. with which his audience listened to Trig recitation,
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