The title of his book is a misnomer. for its contents do not partake ihe nature of a defence of China and the Chinese so much as: of an indictment against Japan and her policy along very much the same lines as that in Mr. Morgan Young's book, though mot so well set forth, albeit somewhat more readable, For Mr. Crow has an easy amusing style of writing well exemplified in his "400 Million Customers," published about a-year ago. There is one thing in the book that many readers in China might take exception to and that is the constant reference to "we foreigners" as though Mr. Crow had off the flies," and very much of a philosopher the man who remarked. "Two barrels of tears will not heal a rui "Heaven protects the good man" writes another Chinese philosopher—though some religious authorities have it that the ungodly flourish like the green bay tree. While he who wrote "The first part of a night think of your own follies; the latter part think of the follies of others" is strongly reminiscent of that saying about the mote and the beam. For that reason this little volume is of singular interest, and the reviewer knows that very well, for having read the volume himself he knows that "I heard is not as good as I saw."—m.T.P.-c.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.