To the Editor of the "Nowru-Ciuwa Dany News Sir—May I congratulate you your leader in to-day's issue, which has done fullest justice to the theme and admirably covers the points of interest usually drawn upon in such fights. One ig impressed at once not only by the healthy natural sentiment which the article awakens, but by the intellectual vigour of the gentleman who so ably fills the editorial chair.
In trying to keep pace with the rapid march of events and all that concerns moral and political specula-ton, editors are apt to overlook the "small man", forgetting that, in. a busy city like Shanghai, where the Imagination is Kept active and wide awake, emotions of the elevating kind, are a' pleasure to those who travel on life's common way, without the Dlessings of wealth or titled rank. To these, T venture to think, your editorial must have been inspiring and most welcome, There are of course people who hold that thoughts, adequately expressed in prose, would be tedious and supererogatory in poetry, but the public at large has become sufficient discerning to appreciate the intelligence of the "spirit" that so successfully revelled yesterday morning in the luxurious robe of Prose and Verse, Mar. 2
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