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The effect of Western civilization upon the Oriental mind is

a large question, the fringe of which is touched upon by Mr. Clayton Sedgwiek Cooper in The Modernizing of the Orient T. Fisher Unwin, Ss. 6d. net). This volume records the impressions in Asia of an American traveller, whose interests have lain chiefly in the direction of educational matters, and who has evidently had unusual opportunities for studying them. His observations and comments are *efficiently acute to give the book considerable interest.