Last week's dinner by the Chinese! 'Ambassador in honour of the dele-fates to the Coronation was an extremely pleasant affair. Naturally' the speeches skated. skilfully. round all deep topics, though there was long applause when Mr. Eden spoke with real feeling of the work that Mr. Quo Tal-chi had done for Anglo-Chinese relations, and the deserved affection and respect he hag won in London.
'Mr. Quo was at his best and most] imaginative, ie has a happy knack of putting ordinary things before one poetic light; and, for his own emotions of this occasion, he quoted appropriately from. the' Book of Odes cropping Frere" eign ime "are nests I delight ialeg are struck and the pipes blown.
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