On that note unreserved comment dation of a delightful little book may be ended, but it is irresistible to give one or two extracts from his amusing glossary, Consuls, he finds, are defined "Nurse maids for tourists" A worthy hoax is "A charitable affair at which 90 per cent, of the funds are spent to amuse the philanthropists." The Compra-dare is:
An expert money changer who guarantees to keep the proprietor free from loss through bad credit or bad curreney—in exchange for a small Salary and the privilege of handling the firm's or individual's money to conduct a private loan business—at exorbitant interest. This latter phase his xctivitics. is something which does not concern tne proprietor.
Mr. A'Rabbitt knows his East and also his club bar—and Sapajou man-v assists him in his exposition, gion" He did not. apparently. sa-fisty everybody Thus, on the occasion of his visit to. Hankow, a shock lady—was heard to observe up there in St. John's Church if vou please! in an ordinary collar, without Any attempt at a surplice and to talk just as if he were talking anywhere well, I call it sacrilegious!"
But over against this may be set the testimony of a sergeant-major who heard him in the Cathedral at Hongkong It's good to get the gospel from a chap who stands over six feet in his socks.
Or again, the testimony of another whose fate it was to attend committees in war time:
How soothed our nerves were after a day's committee under Dr. Hodgkin.
This points to the secret of his life which the understanding reader cannot fail to see. It is contained in two sentences. One is the observation of a friend: "Henry Hodgkin was a God-possessed man." The other is an observation that fell from his own lips and that was borne out by his own life: "Dynamic lives always have a sense of sureness."—1.0.&.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.