Oct. 18, In the correspondence columns to-day there is a modest wail, a not too mild rebuke with which discriminating folk in Shanghai will sympathize. In this City of Dreadful Noise it not surprising that a premium is placed on the existence of quiet spots where the art of contemplation, so lonia atrophied in Nanking ' Road, so impossible on the Bund and so irre-
Jevant in Bubbling Well, can be resumed. Battery Creek has about it a reassuring languor Its name may speak of old-tin warfare and desperate cannonades. It lazily gleams to-day a haven for the tired wi er and as a pleasant place of dalliance for Shanghai's bright est and best. For even the brightest and best tire somees of whirling round on shining floor, of dashing from tone casino to another, of greeting the dawn on horseback, To them in the mood of jaded weariness the inviting peace of Battery Creek offers irresistible charms.
Nor are they alone in this tribute to the blessings of ru: tivity. The Chinese yokels ing in the neighbourhood—s> more in heaven and earth than is'yet dreamt about in man's philosophy is not confined to this baker's dozen. There is the three which gives the tale of the Fates, the Furies and the Graces alike. Indeed it gives rise~to the picture is drawn in the coming letter—also value the placid air which hangs over the Creek. It brings home to them the advantages which they enjoy over: their - fellow-countrymen in Chapei or Sinza. They
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