"Porrnart or 4 Cuixese Lapy."—Dy Lady Hovie, Toadon: Hodder Stoughton. Kelly Walsh.
The great majority of those of who come from the far lands to live land have our being in Cathay quickly find @ growing affection for the and of our adoption so that by the time we have passed a few milestones in the Far East we come to Took upon the Chinese as our sinegre: friends. It is, therefore, really and truly surprising that there should [have arisen in recent years so many} misunderstandings between the Chi Inese and the foreigner with his gates. Much of the trouble is undoubtedly due to the pernicious sy: toto being during the Great Wat but we weld also respectfully beg to suggest that, as inthe cave of Russia, i is Jost possible that much jot the trouble. is also due' to the manner in which China was govern-fin presrar years, It quite common to hear our wise men tel fis of the good old days when th Emperor reigned supreme and" his mandate carried from the plains of Mongolin to the borders of Indo-Ching. "But were the old days 40 ery good attr all? 'True, there reve for constantly recurring lvl fwars throughout the land' and the Sandie did not exist as an individual or an organized horde of Sehting en. But it would be idle 80 sug. fest thatthe 400,000,000 odd cour. ffemen under the Dyesly were {aking their proper place' inthe advancement of world progress. of which has nat very much to do with the "Portrait of Chinese Lady" but as one of China's ince est friend, Lady Hosie. will agree vith us that reference ix necessary, any review pf her splendid. book fo the changing times." Lady Hosie Two Gentlemen given ample. manifest on of her deep love for the country and people of China and that she most sympathetic observer 6f the trials_and tribulations of pre-fent-day China is quite a8 clearly demonstrated in her latest" volume fehich will give hours of Goop ple Ture to all' those of ut who are working and heping for the best of endings to our Far Eastern relationships/Lady Hosie's book ought to be translated into Chinese and road east throughout the school of the country, Instead of the vile pro-Paranda which is doing 20 much farm to the Burnsian erced of the time when "man te man the, world fry shall brothers be for a that" lier "portrait of a Chinese lady, and Gersain of ber' contemper:
Chinese will revel.
There is none of the Jdern tendency to gloss over. hard) facts in Lady Hosie's chapters. She is very frank in her statements of the many differences which have existed, and do exist, between the: JOrient and the Occident. And her: book is just so much the more valuble, for it is only by full and free \dmission of such differences that! the study of their solution can be tackled in earnest. The "Portrait a Chinese Lady" is a most acceptable adé'tion to the literature] fof the East. The book ig beautifully produced, contains numerous ex-_ cellent illustrations, a poem preface {translated from the Chinese for his! Jdaaghter (the author) by W. E. Sootbill, Professor of Chinese at Oxford University, and_a foreword from which we quote "The sharing.
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