A reader has been good enough to send to this office a copy of Messrs. Dawson's "Current. Titerature" in which there Is a review of the late 'M. William Martin's book "Understand the Chinese." The reviewer finds that the author had exceptional political penetration, and this summary of hie'vait to Colon seems to Have teal. sense foresight. Nothing, he says, told him in'Shanghal or by foreign residents bout the Chinese was true, ie war bie meet everybody:" generals 'Sficias, "polticlans, cooles and Peasants. They affected him: 20 much That he occasionally spots the argu ment by Fepetition. He beloves in the Sountry' which is being exploited By reproach levelled Shanghai and elsewhere of being unable to tell the truth about the Chinese need distress no one, for King David make the same sort of remark about all men, though, it 1s true, he did so in hip haste,
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