Leung, has shown much skill in handling the English versi¢n of the Rev. Mandju's work, which has taken the Chinese by' storm. The narrative is not as well done as could be wished, and there is a lack of proportion: too much emphasis is placed on. some of the characters, whilst of others, of whom one would have liked to hear more, only glimpses} are given. There is a head, as the Chinese say, but no tail "Vu Tao Wu Mei," to the story. " This, however, is not the fault of the translater, who gives us a careful, liter-Jai translation, and brings forward much of the animated and pletaresque style of the original. Translation is never an easy work, and literal translation of such a subject, jas that which Mr. Leung has: chosen is even more difficult, English readers will find in ita pleasant change of mental fare, strikingly different from the literary figures of European works, and Chinese students in English "may find in this scholar an inspiration to preserve and respect what is best in Chinese culture and letters—
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