The Archive · 1923

Bandits in Fiction

Happy Ending Model for Lincheng Mr, G. E. Mitten and Mr. J. G. Scott, ce-authors of "A Frontier Man," have prepared a volume of fiction that should appeal to readers in China - at the present time. Appearing now, as it does, when tales of banditry are rife and the reports from the Yunnan border corroborate the plot of the story, the book is bound to have a peculiar interest to those far from home. An interesting comparison of the similarity of customs, common to both the Shanghai Club and the Pamir Club in London should bring to all how small the world really is. The action of the story is powerful and but a short space of time elapses before Steels, home on leave, is drawn

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