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'The name of MMs, Florence Ayscough is, or ought to be, well. known to Shanghai' readers. The wife of a prominent, - local, _merchant and, like raany.ladies of her lass, a person of leisure, she took the study of Chinese as a hobby, Having, perhaps unknown to. her self, a literary gift, she found the study an engrossing one. She was fortunate in securing the assistance of a Chinese scholar who was an enthusiastic lover of - poetry and art, 'Two persons were never better' matched and, together, they pored over Chinese books and pie-tures until "Mis, Ayscough ws owned; fathoms deep, in the love as more vivid if the idea he suggested—as "the breath of news." We may agree that this makes a. more vivid phrase but only "hsi," the latter half of the word, has been pictured. What about the first half, "hsiao"? That character has the Wwater radical and suggests the news spreading like the creeping, waters of a flood. This also is a cognate idea equally worthy of incorporation in translation, This is not to say that the at: tempt should not be made but mere-to point out an inherent difiealty. and to show that, if carried out in detail, the translation would become a dictionary instead of a poem, Mrs, Ayscough's artistic sense has saved her from losing herself in a labyrinth of grammatical dificaltics and_ has been true to her principles, when possible to be so without destroying either the rhyme or the, reason of her poetry.
To turn now to the book. It is deed by ridding the world' of the selfish old woman. decision - practically impossible except by unanimous consent. There-
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