This particular essay is easily the best in the book and it leaves the impression that the authoress has turned into an essay of not more than 41 pages excellent material to which justice could only be done in a full-volume, There are other absorbing essays in the book under review, but various limitations such as questions of space, indulgence in the art of contraction, etc," have brought about queer arrangements of proportion, with the result that an essay on the imposing subject of Mary Stuart, Queen of England, takes little more space than the one dealing with the poet Edward Young, one of the lesser stars of the Augustan age of English letters. For this reason ihe book gives an impression of imbalance which is not altogether too pleasing, though there is not is slightest doubt that the very attr manner in which Miss Bowen handles There is a common factor operating in the proverbs of all civilizations, and in this translation of 700 Chinese proverbs (here are to be—found parallels in a large number of other languages. That is inevitable. for proverrs are products of human experience, and humanity the whole world over, progressing through the various stages of evolution, has encountered the same experiences, though on occasion they may be expressed. in different ways. Thus Mr. Hart translates one Chinese proverb as follows:
Your teacher can lead you to the door; the acquiring of Jearning rests With' each person An En; h parallel is not very far to be found concerning the ease of leading a horse to the drinking-trough and the difficulty of getting him to use it. It was a good Chinese. horseman who invented the s: ug:
Leave a little of the tail to whisk. her subjects will commend the book to most thoughtful readers.—t.r.e.-c-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.