Therefore Dr. Hodgkin, when he discusses this phase of the commercial life in China, is not carried away by his love and enthusiasm for the Chinese as his critic would make him out to be, but shows real knowledge and insight into his subject. By making his views public, he may be rendering the foreign business men: a service, by preparing they for the change, which is inevitable. The foreign business man can either gain by dint of application and _perseverance,.2
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.