Hosie's book "Portrait of a Chinese Lady" (Hodder & Stoughton, 7/6) was first published in October, 1929, reprinted in March of the' following year, and the
popular edition in justifiable con: Publishers have now brought out a fidence in the demand for this now well established collection of impressions, of Sino-Foreign relation ships... The vivid description of the sojourn in Shanghai has almost an historical interest, for such is the progress made by this international city that many of the be regarded as out-the modernity book insists requires en-and, of course, as, the nder meets and. falke China of 1033, he realises that fragrant though the portrait of the Chinese Indy may be, it can almost be placed within the cate gory of those Victorian relics wherein bustles and_leg-of-mutton sleeves recall the leisured ease of Tess strenuous 'This splendid record on the Yangtze was further enhanced two years ago by the great devotion to duty: shown' by the men of the Maritime Customs 8 ice when the ton tial floods swept down" the valley and caused enormous destruction. The tale hus been told these columns before, and it the more fitting, therefore, that the Department should have taken steps to produce this excellent permanent record of its. organisation
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.