Exciting episodes of the Boxer uprising, the murder of a powerful and wealthy Chinese merchant by his enlightened wife, the suicide of a deceived English girl, the intrigue and hypocrisy manifest in the Imperial Court during the closing years of the Empire, and more than a glimpse of the birth of the Revolution which was to culminate in the This is a comparatively slim volume and therefore compression rather than expansion of her views must have been the critic's aim. Nor can it have been an altogether easy task that Miss Barnard Eldershaw set herself in criticizing her contemporaries of the novelist'& craft, but she has done it with frankness and ability and, needless to say, in a most readable manner,
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