"Ancestral Tablet" is a remarkable document from so many viewpoints and Mrs. Wallace has been wise enough not to have allowed her vast knowledge of China, its customs and characteristics, to become subordinate ed to a romantic setting with Chinese figures purely and simply as a background. In avoiding this pitfall-a mistake that many a competent writer with a less complete acquaintance of the East might well have made—she has produced an exquisitely detailed picture of a China awakening from her centuries' old lethargic slumbers to acquire something more than just the mere beginnings of modernity and civilization as we know these Liberty or Death Mr, Davison is not only concerned with animals—but here is another picture of them, from wild cattle have been rounded up and impounded for profit:
Black was wrong in thinking the green food would wean the scrubbers away from their longing ior their home. During the days that followed they passed stumbling in wear: Cession around the fence lini and hour after hour they stood with heads thrown up and eyes fixed on the distant ranges. The flesh wasted from their frames, their hair grew harsh and stood on end, and bones painfully apparent. The light that was the ever-present longing for the wildness of freedom of the hills continued to burn in their only physical thing they scious of was the fence th their paddock. terms in the West.
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