Tue, New Cuvtues 1 Cumna-—By Lance lot Forster, Professor of Education the University of Hongkoni Wit an Introduction by sir aftehaei Sadler. Allen & Unwin, Lon:
Professor Forster has produced a very charming, scholarly and sym= pathetic survey of cultural movements in the China of to-day. He is of concerned to pour out unthinking eulogy on every development nor does. he uncritically accept the basic cotrines on which China's. philosophy has been founded. He emphasizes the advantages to be attained from ce-operation. with foreign cultural activities and he manages deftly to apply his. examination of philosophical tendencies to the political perplexities of the moment. As an. example of the delicacy of his method the very short chapter which Contrasts the scene in a Chinese and English bank 1s attractively' typical, After outlining the orderly mechanization of the modern English bank and its strict attention to the main purpose of its operations, he turns to the Chinese bank, where adding machines have not yet replaced the abacus, although counters, safes, and ledgers are present, His chapter on the mass education movement is exceptionally interest-ug, based as st is on a personal visit, to Ting Hsien and, of course, on a Tong professional experience of his own. The book concludes with a thoughtful appreciation of Dr, Shih as a true product of Chins modern cultural activities, Discussion of the Three Principles, the development of the universities along the Yangtze, and the possibil les of securing unity of purpose in China all furnish material for Professor Forster's thoughtful examina tion and Judd exposition—s.it,
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