To the Editor of the a Dany New hai's budding authors, ion on your ber 28. The reviewer did nut like our book! We piped to him and he did not dance. We have a discouraged feeling that should we mourn, he would not.
With regret we read of the reviewer looking "in vain through the resent volume for an attempt on the part of a foreigner dwelling here to deal with an exclusively foreign theme." A glance at the preface would have dulled the edge such a disappointment. We are at a loss to know how best to make amends to the reviewer for waste of time. But as the urge to see the first volume is based on grounds of curiosity—"to see whether the then contributors confined themselves meticulously Celestial themes"—the least we can do is to relieve this uncertainly. whey did.
The apprehension regarding a third volume seems ungrounded. For now we know that "the last ord on the experience of the foreigner here" has been said—several years ago. This is a fact of which the club has been ignorant, but now enlightenment has come.
And although the rank of sophowore was perhaps unexpected, the fact that we are not in the same
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