The books on China multiply and yet seldom seem to
deepen
our knowledge of that vast, mysterious and troubled country. Professor John Nind Smith, who held the chair of Education in Hongkong University, shows a passionate sympathy with the Chinese in China's Hour (Martin Hopkinson, 7s.' 6d.), but has no very definite information to' give." He blames the Powers -for obstructing China's .recoyery and yet admits that the Chinese, like other peoples, have their faults which make political reconstruction slow and difficult. He regards China as a bulwark against Bolshevism, thOugh, he' maintains, she is threatened somehow from Tibet. " An Anglo-Chinese alliance in victory," he observes, " is the only means of now righting an historic wrong." It is not a helpful suggestion, when he has repeatedly emphasized the Chinese dislike of all foreigners.
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