All this is well and interestingly described in Mrs. Harkness' book. as well as the return journey to Shanghai by airplane; her stay in this city while waiting for a boat to America; how she was stopped by the Customs authorities from embarking with the toby panda because she had no permit to take it out of the country; and how, the permit having at last bee given. she sailed on the Empress of Russia for Vancouver and in due course arrived safely in New York with the world's only liv ant panda in captivity The value to science of its. Harkness' achievement is very gresi.. providing, as it does. the opportunity øf studying this rare animal in a living condition 1f all this is not worth the publicity it has been given, and "Ssu-lim," as the baby panda was called after Mrs. Jack Young, is not worthy of the position she holds in the Brook-field Zoo in Chicago as its chief attraction, then I can only cay that I am at a loss to gauge what is headline news.
The fact that Mrs. Harkness has since returned to China and secured a second live giant panda, which was duly displayed to the public in Shanghai and is now on its w; to join "Si " ju Chicago, does not detract from the romance of the story of her first achievement in this direction. as described in her book. which is simply written. well got vp, and supplied with a number of attractive illustrations.—A. DE Os.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.