Nov, 13.
To-day we say goodbye to th Kent for a season and finally, it is td be feared, to Vice-Admiral "A. pedlar from a hovel, the lowest of the low.
"The father of the novel, Salva. tion's first Defoe."
much too surely established to be shaken by the petulant grumbling of even a master of English as Dr. Alfred Noyes undoubtedly is. Dr. Noyes changed his religion not long ago and we suspect it is Vunyan's sturdy _protestantism that displeases him, We are familiar with the spectacle of Chinese Generals changing their allegiance when the war seems to be going against them. In ancient times the traitor bought Tyrwhitt: for he does not expect to return to Shanghai before handing over his command. to Vice-Admiral Waistell next February. Admiral Tyrwhitt's departure is a cause of sincere refgrct to all his countrymen, to other foreigners in Shanghai and, it might well be, to all Chinese in the Settlement who are able to appreciate the events of the past two years in true perpective. If there is any truth in the saying that the occasion begets the man, there was never better example of it than in Admiral Tyrwhitt's most timely' arrival in China at the beginning
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