To, the Editor of the Sm—It is my misfortune not to be able to read your valuable journal until some time after it has appear-led, and therefore the matter to which I refer may have already entries. *°t (© Pre-Chrston Jeorrespondent "Dogeerel and Your secad Jour memory, 0 boer Note ealdents realise the prestige meat gorged ang' that our Yame poet has [you throw your het rather widely Doubtless only a few Shanghai|lefinition of the Limerick is con-bring to women writers im' Chins, SPECIALITIES: ing atociation with the library of the [eTuson, which we freely admit eht "literature in the East, in their cit; thr the Drol we Royal" Asiatic" Society "of "their would have been more reasonably modern times, seems to be dominate fellow citizens who have. disring. hished "themselves "as. inteypretass of China to" the cuter world. Not to go back to the early fathers in Sinology, most of whom made the! striking contributions to the Jour: bibliographer, was' for' years "lia al-—Henri Cordiey, historian and described asa "Splinter."
'At the same time, we would point out that the Lines' created quite a lot of interest and produced a goodly number of replies, thus achieving their object in drawing attention to Jan excellent picture. "Abe! "And exemplifying the old doggerel (all led by women." Can that justly be said of any country in the Bast save China? can think of several English and French male writers Japan who have no female. equals as yet. "The Needle-Waicher," which hag ority "just recently" appeared, the "customary high
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