merit of n Vu-tang is that of an interpreter of the West. wears the West was quite willing to have its own people interpret China, What a long run Arthur Smith's "Chinese Characteristics" has had, for example, And quite rightly, many old hands will answer. We agree.
But how many things "Chinese Chai ies" left out, Lin Vu-tang has come into the field as Chinese, to challenge thought and redress, the balance of old opinion, and his coming marks a Ivanee in international understandings.
But to keep up the standard he ready act can hardly. be cob sidered in' easy task, "MY Country ind Ay People," the first of the four Hammond Innes in "Wreckers Must Breathe" (Collins. London, 7/6). The time ix August 1939. Walter Cro A dramatic critic, has sone to Cada-
Lin Yuetang books the John' Day with for a summer holiday.
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