the Rams. A, General ands a Bree Modern Canton is, no more a mote place whose commercial supremacy has been assured not only lis favourable geographical situation, but also by its immunity, due to dis= stance, from political and military disturbances of the Middle Kingdom. During the last years it was the native place of many leaders of the Chinese revolutionary movement and It is-world-famed as the "Cradle of. the Revolution." According Is there isa 'a.common saying: "Where there
Cantonese." On the' subject of this quickly modernized "old city, the author of this unpretentious booklet had remarked the complete absence of current literature, end he wished to meet a long-felt want for inform= ation on the great metropolis of South China, in Port Tis briehy sketched "Canton, Tis Past and Present" with a commendable laudalon of its acluat. Muncipal adminis ration, and in Part If "An Unofficial Guide" leads us through this composite capital where the most up-lo-date cement high building is very near an obsolete wooden house, The treatest attention is given to educational work and to the most recent memories of the Revolution; In this Fespect Canton may be said to be the City of Sun" Yat-sen, whose Memorial and Mausoleum Hall' command all the perspective of a well planned transformation.
Of the six illustrations. the most interesting is the "Bird's-eye View of Canton" with its vivid' contrast between the wooded part of the foreign island concession of Shameen and the crowded adjacent. dwelling laces. An appendix is added giving Some proper names with their more familiar "Cantonese romanizations and Chinese characters.
The literary point of view Is not neglected and' some Cantonese stories introduce the reader to the rich popular folk-lore of which the first chaplet. is written in Ube short introduction, which deserves to be known as the NGity"oF the' Tramortats™ sid "corm
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