Gaae—A Memoir by Bernard Aitlen, eae tad, Kegan Pout, re, really attract ne continued, "on" the whole, "n sympathy, with the Liveral many The Hague. Conference, haa ign ata ere Spened hig eyes te the really German mented ard ho realized th since theca of sia 1 Tnpife had shifted from St, Pete a damesepaine for the
ture to Bern The arrival of the young student interpreter, Ernest Satow, inthe Far East was actually "of direct interest to Shanghai because itwas here that he arrived in August, 1862, on his way to. Japan, Sir Rutherford Alcock, who had' been Consul in Shanghai and was the first British Minister to Japan, had Jaid it, down that the student interpreters should study Chinese before they got to work on. the Japanese Language, So although Satow had from. the first nese service wad to go to arrived at Poking In_-Aprily 1862, But before te had, been there long the Change @Affaires at "Yeo, the absence of Sir Rutherford, tent for him and hig fellow interpreters for" the. Japanese service. to-go. Span ai once. Tt may be observed that" Colonel" Neale," the Cha Afalen tu gpestiny, Ws, linguistic. views, cal sigreemen is "superiors
Allen notes, that Satow was actually in Shanghai at. the ame time a¢ 'Colonel,' afterwards Gen tral Gordon, but it seems clem that the two! men never" actually met, Gordon being fully engaged then evading the netpiboethood of ren ravaging the neighbourhood M. Allen may surprise game of his. friends "by suddenly Eontributing a book on Far Eastern affairs, but once established this scholarship and literary Skil have been enlisted by personal friendship in the task of revordis the main features of the life of Sir Ernest Satow, the surprise ives way to pleasure. Writing in spirit of detachment. from current attains in the Fay East Dr. Allen) thus produces first of all a remark: ably, concise and, "secondly, a, Te-markably authoritative acount the career "of one of the. most attractive figures in' British "Par Eastern diplomacy." Sir. Ernest Satow was a great friend of Japan and hig career coincided with thas story of AngloJapancse friendship
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