However, these observations are going a little beyond the scope of a review, and it is only necessary to add that in Lady Hosie we find one who sincerely believes in and likes the Chinese and who is prepared to see the very best in them, and who has written a most interesting account of her last visit to a China which is rapidly passing and which she will never see again, for unchanging China is undergoing a complete metamorphosis. There are many other writers on China and the Chinese who are perhaps more up to date in their appreciation of conditions and whose stark realities tend to shock, and it is not unpleasant to find someone who has little but good to say for the Chinese and to try and shut out from one's mind what is the real situation in China, and to put aside for a brief space fears of what may happen when the undeclared war is over. How will Lady Hosie and others of her school of thought fare then, and how long will their idealism of China and the Chinese remain unshattered?—R.r.c.M.
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