Tt will be noted that Mr, Browett arrived here in -Queen Jubilee year and he brought with him a novel and very useful introduction in the shape of some of the special Jubilee gold col which highly interested the banking' people and others, 30 far removed from the outside world as they were in those da Tt might be mentioned, too, in connection with his profession, that he is credited with having. one of the finest legal libraries in Shanghai.
It fills the walls of two large rooms and includes a stt of Law Reports complete back te th carly seventies. He is; or ha been, a member of most of the Shang} poi clubs, including " near! ly all the sporting ones, and also the Royal Asiatic Society.
The sight of Basil Lubbock's most interesting "China Clippers" on his desk prompted a question as to whether he had been a yachtsman He said he thad not, but his brothes who is buried Shanghai, was a mate on the famous Cutty Sark and that fact impelled him to bly' the. book.
The schoolboy Keeps the juicies plum for the last. Mr. Browett holds s record—at least, it rately bea record, "He ha hol een
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