A poem by the late Mr. J. H. Edgar as well as several articles from the same pen give special personal inter est to the latest issue of the "Journal of the West China Border Resem Society." The news of Mr. Edgar' death was received as the journal went to press, and in announcing the Toss which. would be felt by the "Tibetan Marches," the Editor writes: sidered aa. a. selt-weittenmemor! Many of the articles are his creative inquiring mind conventional. at beginning crystallize out some of his conclusions about the sources of Asian. land of great cor is "reports agar has been the continued inspiration of the West China Border asearch Society from its inception {intl the present. 'The members' will hot easily' forget the personality of their" Honorary. President, The verses entitled "Yunnan Rivers attmetively develop the theme of Yunnan's extraordinary privilege of seeing the beginning of several great rivers. The poem is worth quoting It only because it will teach the reader little geography previously forgotten: you For Ib seems with little bother Nature here a healthy mother Nurees or delivers Half of Asle's mighty rivers.
First_ we have the Bramaputra Famed in treatise song and 'And deep hidden in' the mount Ase the Trawaddy's fountain And Roare Uke distant thunder at you.
Next beyond the Li Tien passes What i that Watch 9o outclasses Rivers in the East of Asia In'a way that must amaze you? without fellow.
Then not for from Tall welling Are the springs that ald in. swelling Both the Mekong and the Yangtze, And st is no dle fancy That two other rivers owing Where the Jungles rank are growing And. which Join their forces Almost toud tip at their sources, But before we leave these topies It ig likely near the Troples You're befozred as much as ever, For a new important river Busters thro' the Ami ridges And goes east past Fallroad. bridges To the Canton city, Like an ocean dun On the surface of the planet? ud it seems tome. you cannot For assumed exceptions wilt in time be proved deceptions.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.