Dr. Legendre's book, "Modern Chinese Civilization," which has Just reached China, is likely, a8. Suggests Mr. J. 0. P. Bland in a review which we reprint in to-day' "Book Page," to create a stir in the dove-cots of Downing Street, and more particularly in those of the Foreign Office Far Eastern Department—a stir, which, it seems Lrobable, will equal, that made by Katherine Mayo's "Mother India'? or Rodney Gilbert's "What's Wrong. with China" For Dr. Legendie a man who speaks from a wide experience and a Uhorough—know ledge of the subject of which he writes both Iucidly and candidly, exposing matters as they really are, For 20 years he lived in the in terior of western Szechuan ant Curing this time he travelled exe tensively, studying all features, Social, economic, and yrsoraphical, the country, At one period Dr Legendre was director of the Tut-Ree: ele of "Ah aly
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