A homeside friend has reminded roe. that ata. production of vor Rovellds; "Careless Rapture Ehymartet. theatre lant ear Sitnessed the fall in var of " Chinese Sioye trid malvely= anes: "vas the realty you fave known sing 3 sage opoctacls ofthe piece and rethe extn refered to was the sar presented the sacking of a Chinese Bip ty bane: apparently streets of Foes fell fo shot and fare enathe fedias truly. marvellous," Con-Sldering' to what X was a0 ehorlly refining if cornea strangely propketc, tea, ollevable or not, he. Foals her the stage debacle, looked. not thilke Chapel et ths svomsent—on 8 Smal solay of course.
The Real Thing But the real Chapel! This district is now open, and can be inspected any. time, though It is no' pleasure
{which soams us large as that occu "Ons_ctn drive round Bu ren by" the elly of Birmingham, amon Teiehttul devastation) It is indeed a hoatelty, but a bott wraith, whose subatance'has been pitilessly torn and devoured by modern war-machines and flame: the skeleton of a city that, ying, was twisted in agony. Decay Wwe have all seen, and decayed cities, and these always present an element sadness, but there is a world of Aifference between the gentle dis: Integration which Time imposes, and which Nature Kindly" clothes "with moes and leaf to vell the mournful rot, and this stark, monstrous. ghost Of "a one-time prosperous district. Even the rats seem to have deserted At now, certainly has every other ving thing. Only at intervals stands sentry, guarding—what?
Bosrd which has ite returned _roigess "from "Hongkong, former eidents of Hongkew, on ie hands.
Job's Comfort it will give no cheer tothe destitute tobe told that our forbuare had {ce even harier Limes than m2 know how, Dut itis true. Tt lo less th fhumired. gears since. the forties" and not enich more forrers many endured during the in: Gastril revolution, but with the oft feponted "assertion "that we. ave Erought on cur troubles. through deeds and: meglest of Yeligion tam not. iielined to agree. Perhaps we have lost some. of the latter's formal rofesion, But T doubt we'are much Worse than our antecedents. Certain~ Jy, noting recent good. works. here, 'Réoe can my. weibave lot real burnet leympathy, And, after all, what were vetd folk like when' they" were examined?
Was it not Lord Melbourne, Queen Victoria's frst Prime Minister who remarked with "annoyance when religion seemed to be sweeping the "Religion is all. very well private life," and there, T think, we have the "nub" of the spirit of religion which actuated some of the Victorians.
Another writer in these times describes the perfect wite for her (brother William: asa woman, "of good sense without vanity, a penetrate {ing judgment without a disposition to satire, with about as much religion fas my William likes," and we judge that that amount would not interfere with "my". William's" tastes and inlinations, nor those of his Indy for that matter.
Of course Shanghai has had the reputation of having gone to the [Patriotism," and he was listened to! with deserved Interest. This look place at the French Club and followed 2 pleasant tea interval.
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