A Millionaire's Courtship. By Mrs. Archibald Little. (T. 'isher Unwin.
6s.)—The descriptions of China and the Chinese in this book are interesting, but they would have been very much improved had the account of the millionaire's courtship been entirely omitted. Neither the millionaire himself nor the very young lady with whom he falls in love is in the least life- like, and novel-readers are by this time more than tired of the enormous fortunes with which it is the modern fashion for writers of fiction to credit their heroes. But Mrs. Archibald Little, of course, is an adept in things Chinese, and it is impossible to read her book without acquiring a great deal of very curious and useful information. This information, too, deals not only with the life of the Chinese themselves and their country, but with that of the English people who live in China, as to whom their fellow-countrymen as a rule.know very little.
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