Exciting episodes of the Boxer uprising, the murder of a powerful and wealthy. Chinese merchant. by his. enlightened wife, the suicide of a deceived English girl, the intrigue and hypocrisy manifest in the Imperial Court during the closing years: of the Empire, and more than a glimpse of the birth of the Revolution which was to culminate in the establishment of the Republic in 1911, make thoroughly. interesting and/stirring reading, whilst the very' able descriptions of Shanghai and Tsingtao in the nineteen-hundreds ud the manner in which the foreign communities in those ports passed their days in commerce and pleasure will certainly make readers. of the younger generation open their eyes in wonder and astonishment. Mrs.
Wallace knows her China, or at least ther China of bygone days, extremely well and it is quite within the bounds of possibility that should the present' strife and turmoil in this part of the world finally snap the bonds. of friendship. between Chinese and foreigner and bring them to an abrupt close, then thig novel may indeed. become all the more important, raising, og it were, an "ancestral tablet" in memory of alliances that have stood the acid test of many. a troublous year.
A. most attractive story, well conceived, finely written and peopled with characters that are truly alive, Mrs, Wallace's latest effort is ce fidently recommended to diseriminat= ing readers—ra, New Fiction Fleeing from home under the impression that he had killed a man, land finding five years later that he hadn't, Barry Weston returns to the Flying W ranch. In "Wolves of the Chaparral" (Ward Lock, London. 3/6) Mr. Paul Evan Lehman tells how Barry's return restored his sick mother to health and improved the behaviour of his stepfather—but all not go so well with the girl he loved. He found her with a haunted, desperate light in her eyes, talking to Alonzo F. Frothingham, a Danker. Listening to this banker with his clients st Is plain that fe 4s mor encouraging than. 15 customary:
Fant {0 know, you cee ie mous 2 my bank Sporting And agal nan olds' ie Btlings Foy" teste 5 tact der, What 12 to be thought of such banker? It'is soon evident. And this mingling of sophisticated ace wilh the snore. natural the. Chaparrat" stand somewhat part from. its fellows, Books Received Utopias Old and New. H. Row (Micholzon & Watson, 4/6)
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