literature

The old Chinese literati with his eight—legged essays was a harmless humbug.But foreigners will find to their cost that the new Chinese literati who under the influence of John Smith' s Anglo—Saxon ideals is clamouring for a constitution, is likely to become an intolerable and dangerous nuisance.In the end I fear John Bull Senior will not only find his Manchester goods trade ruined, but he will even be put to the expense of sending out a General Gordon or Lord Kitchener to shoot his poor old friend John Chinaman who has become non compes mentis under the civilising influence of John Smith' s Anglo—Saxon ideals. But that is neither here nor there.