Shanghai's one beauty, they call it, those of the inglorious fraternity of disparagers, and the unabashed remainder are so thankful to have something allowed them to rejoice in That they do not take up the cudgels for the balance 6f Shanghai at once. Who has not, even in the comfortable suburbs of Hampstead or Iowa Centre, heard about the Bund, and thrilled to the - unfamiliar sound. Bubbling Well, too, is another name to conjure with, but that is still another story.
But here we are and here is the Bund, a most satisfactory riverbank, a front door step en which we inay proudly stand and welcome incoming guests or speed them off with flowers and firecrackers, -Between times we stroll along its water, at least those of who can endure strolling along with Chinese of every sort and description and foreigners of even more motley types. Much could he learned on the river front, good and bad no doubt.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.