Prefacing ite current dissertations on art, literature and culture—including an interesting foretaste of Mr.
Gootte's forthcoming. book jade Lore"—"Tien Hsia makes stout plea for restraint in assessing present-day achievements, Specifically argues—no doubt correetly—that Dr. S. 1. Hsiung himself has not countenanced the ridiculous deseription of the suther of "Lady Precious Stream" as "the Chinese Shakespeare." Indeed it recalls Dr. Hsiung's skill as a translator of Barrie and, with this journal, discovers in "Lady Pre-Jcious Stream" many of Barrie's mannerisms and whimsicalities. Mr. Levy has shown in "Mrs. Moonlight" that Jan attractive pastiche can be created a Barrie admirer. Dr. Hsiung' success with "Lady Precious Stream" iwas due less to its revelation of Chinese art than to the box-once
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