As the East Sees the East Perhaps the most interesting section of the world today, both for its present curious intermingling of civilizations, and for the developments which must inevitably come about in the future, is the Far East, particularly China and Japan.

Two kinds of observers are viewing the situation in the Far East from widely different angles. There is the Oriental who sees the East with the eyes of the East, and there is the representative of Western civilization who sees the East with the eyes of the West.

The Harris Foundation Lectures for 1925 bring to American readers the views of outstanding thinkers of both types. The Eastern views are given by Count Michimasa Soyeshima and Dr. P. W. Kuo. Count Soyeshima, who is a member of the House of Peers of Japan, and a leading exponent of Japanese foreign policy, contributes three notable lectures: "The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Modern Japan," "Japan's Policy in the Far East,' and Japan's Relations with the United States." Japan's greatest problems, Count Soyeshima believes, are the domestic ones. Japan, a country given over to a form of medieval feudalism, became, in the lifetime of a man, a great modern power. Analyzing the problems created, Count Soyeshima emphasizes the political aspect-the movement toward democratic government. In his discussion of Japan's economic problems, he draws a startling picture of a Japan that may be confronted with actual starvation within the next thirty years. He gives the Japanese attitude toward our exclusion laws, and discusses the question

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January 1926

Dr. Kuo, who is President of Southeastern University, Nanking, China, and one of the best-known educators in that country, does for modern China what Count Soyeshima has done for Japan, describing her political, economic, and social conditions; her position in Eastern Asia; and her relations with the United States. China is pictured as a land in transition, the meeting place of a new and an old civilization, with the new gradually taking ascendancy over the old. Dr. Kuo discusses the modern tendencies: the development of public opinion, the reorganization of the educational system, labor troubles and the growth of modern industry, the changes in morals and in the position of women, the disintegration of the family unit, and the new culture movement or Chinese Renaissance.

China's attitude toward bolshevism and

her relationships with Russia, Japan, and Great Britain with reference to Manchuria, Mongolia, and Tibet are topics in Dr. Kuo's formulation of the position of China.

in Eastern Asia.

Dr. Kuo treats China's political, economic, and cultural relations with the United States, discussing the Chinese attitude toward our exclusion laws. ORIENTAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE FAR EASTERN PROBLEM. By COUNT MICHIMASA SOYESHIMA and DR. P. W. Kuo. $2.00, postpaid $2.10.

As the West Sees the East

In contradistinction to the oriental interpretations are the views on the Far East given by an English editor from Pekin, an American business man, and an American commercial attaché.

Mr. H. G. W. Woodhead, editor of the Pekin and Tientsin Times and an Englishman of twenty years' residence in China, draws a somewhat darker picture of modern China than that presented by Dr. Kuo. He is particularly concerned with acquainting Western readers with the status of the Chinese Republic. To clarify the present situation he tells what has happened in China since the formation of the Republic: the rôles played by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen and Yuan Shih-Kai, the Great War and the Twenty-one Demands, and the recent struggles between rival war lords. It is China with her constant civil warfare, her nominal republic, her millions of illiterates, and her financial bankruptcy, that appears in Mr. Woodhead's treatment.

Personally observed cases of the way in which Chinese law is administered are included in Mr. Woodhead's extensive discussion of the question of extraterritoriality.

American interests in China, commercial and cultural, are taken up, and Mr. Woodhead discusses China's relations with Japan, France, and soviet Russia, going into the question of how far the present disturbances are due to bolshevik instigation.

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Henry Kittredge Norton, business man and publicist, writes of the Russians in the Far East. He tells the long story of RussianJapanese relations with China, and interprets the new treaties. His summary of the situation is that "there in the Far East is

going on at this very moment a desperate game of world-politics no less fraught with danger to America and American interests than the game which culminated at Sarajevo in June, 1914."

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Julean Arnold, United States consul or commercial attaché in China since 1902, contributes a chapter on China's economic

The Panchatantra of the
Litterateur

There are a few books in world-literature
which more than any others hold a
fascination for writers themselves, and one
of them is The Panchatantra. Since the
creation of these wise tales nearly two
thousand years ago in the Vale of Kashmir,
and throughout the course of their travels
over Europe and Western Asia, from Eng-
land to the Malay Peninsula, they have
exercised a strong and direct literary in-
fluence. They have many times been paid
the compliment of translation whether
under the name of "Kalila and Dimna,"
"Anvar-i-Suhaili," "Directorium Vitae
Humanae," "Buch der Beispiele," "Fables
of Bidpai," or finally "The Panchatantra"
of Arthur W. Ryder. Many writers have
given these tales the even greater tribute of
pilfering them for material. La Fontaine
is perhaps the outstanding example, while
in recent times the "Uncle Remus" stories
are evidence of the allurement this famous
fable book of ancient India holds as a
perennial source of literary inspiration.
It is still much too soon after the introduc-
tion in America of the complete collection
of tales in Arthur W. Ryder's translation
of The Panchatantra to know what influence
they will next exert upon literature and
literary men. The following letter to The
Saturday Review of Literature from the de-
lightful poet and dramatist, Lee Wilson
Dodd, indicates that The Panchatantra has
lost none of its age-old fascination for the
creative artist:

"In a world in which so much that is really excellent gets smothered from view and fails to win the attention of the very people most fitted to enjoy it, I think it

more and more behooves any one of us who happens upon a treasure to turn himself into as much of a megaphone as he can manage and proclaim his find from the housetops.

"Therefore at the full power of my lungs. (which are not so powerful as I could wish) I emit the following yawp:

"Read The Panchatantra!

"It is translated joyously by Arthur W. Ryder. It is published by the University of Chicago Press. It costs $4. And it is worth many times that amount.

"This is rough barking for a fine and ancient and humorous and humane and incredibly wise and lovely book-but O Lord! what a hubbub those Best Sellers are making. So forgive my manners, but remember my advice: "Read The Panchatantra!"

Signed, LEE WILSON DODD That many people are "reading The Panchatantra" is evidenced by the almost immediate sale of the first two impressions; and for those who have not yet read it, a third is in preparation. THE PANCHATANTRA. Translated from the Sanskrit by ARTHUR W. RYDER. $4.00, postpaid $4.15. GOLD'S GLOOM. Tales from the Panchatantra. Translated by ARTHUR W. Ryder. $2.00, postpaid $2.10.

RIGHT LIVING

A Discussion Course for

Girls and Boys

By MAURICE J. NEUBERG

"The case method in moral education" is briefly descriptive of this book developing a new type of study. It has been prepared after definite experimentation with many church-school classes in which the method proved entirely successful.

Dr. Neuberg's chief purpose has been to secure ethical reactions from the study of concrete ethical problems. This course of lessons, therefore, is not so much concerned with inculcating any set of clearly-defined facts, as it is with developing in boys and girls a basis of judgment and action which will serve them as they grow older. The starting point is with the actual experiences of the children themselves; Dr. Neuberg urges an intelligent examination of personal problems and encourages constant investigation, comparison, and discussion. He urges the necessity of giving young folks the opportunity of expressing their constantly developing ideals in school, home, and community.

This whole plan has been carefully worked out in a series of twenty-six lessons, each dealing specifically with a problem of child-life. There is a teacher's manual to accompany the text, with directions and suggestions for the most effective use of the lessons.

out effective business letters, and his is a practical manual both for the man who dictates letters and for the stenographer who transcribes them.

Questions of capitalization, of correct English, of spelling, and of the formal appearance of the letter are constantly coming up in the day's work of a stenographer. How she solves these problems affects greatly the final value of the letter. Mr. Powell's treatment is intended to obviate the danger that the letter will fail to be effective for mechanical reasons. For the dictator, Mr. Powell goes into such questions as atmosphere and personality, the make-up of a sales letter, and originality of expression; and gives examples of every sort of business letter. Here is a new kind of manual-no hackneyed phrases and devices, nothing about letters with a "punch"-a convincing, individual treatment that will help the letter-dictator write more original and persuasive business letters. HOW TO WRITE BUSINESS LETTERS. BY JOHN A. POWELL. $1.50, postpaid $1.60.

Charles E. Merriam is a leader in the movement to apply scientific methods of inquiry to political phenomena. His latest book, New Aspects of Politics, is a startling discussion of the effects of contributions from psychology, biology, and sociology upon the present state of political studies. It has been written in the belief that the time has come for adapting the technique of the scientist to politics. Mr. Merriam sums up the point of view upon which the discussion is based when he says "What advantage shall we reap if science conquers the whole world except the world's government?"

Mr. Merriam covers all the various aspects of the new science of politics, foreshadowing developments which are of the future. There are, for example, the possibilities of the application of biological knowledge to political phenomena. Here, Mr. Mer

future to reach a point where it may be possible to breed whatever type of human being it is desired to have.'

Then, there is the intimate association of politics and numbers. Mr. Merriam sums up the possibilities and the limitations of statistical measurement of political phe

nomena.

Other tendencies in political study are outlined: tendencies in political education, in the organization of adult intelligence, and in the furthering of scientific research in government. Mr. Merriam shows that it would be possible to have a new majority in twenty-one years with an entirely new political education-that the world could be re-created politically in that time through education in the new science of politics.

Here is analysis that will further the development of clearer political thinking and sounder practice. NEW ASPECTS OF POLITICS. By CHARLES E. MERRIAM. $2.50, postpaid $2.60.

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Jesus Today

Forty thousand people in six leading student centers of India-Bombay, Lucknow, Lahore Calcutta, Rangoon in Burma, and Madrasheard Dr. C. W. Gilkey talk on Jesus as our generation sees him. The lectures, now offered in book form, were made possible by the Barrows Foundation, and were inspired by its purpose of presenting "in a friendly, temperate, and conciliatory way, the truths of Christianity to the scholarly and thoughtful people of India." Dr. Gilkey, one of the most popular preachers in America, is one who speaks with the authentic voice of the younger generation. And it is to Jesus, himself, as distinguishable from the doctrines, historical movements, and institutions which have taken his name, that Dr. Gilkey turns in these lectures. What he attempts is, in effect, a re-discovery of Jesus. "If you would know what essential Christianity is," says Dr.

Young People's Projects

By ERWIN L. SHAVER

Here are six separate projects, each designed to cover a period of three to four months, and each a challenge to young people to think through the problems of the Christian life.

A Christian's Life-Work

A project plan suggesting how Christian people of high-school and college age may be helped to find that form of life-work to which they are best suited.

A Christian's Recreation

A project plan to guide young people of high-school age and older in the discovery and use of Christian types of recreation. A Christian's Attitude toward the Press The object of this project program is to develop among young people by group discussion and activity an intelligent and effective attitude on the Christian level toward the public press.

Christian World-Builders

The aim of the program of activities offered here is to help young people interpret and use the resources of the world in accordance with the Christian purpose. Christian Young People and World-Friendships

The activities of this program are designed to enlist young people in the knowledge of and participation in the missionary work of the world.

Young People and the Church

Suggested procedure for a unified program of educative activities for young people with the aim of developing a more intelligent, devoted, and active loyalty to the church.

Each project is bound in paper and is 50 cents, postpaid 55 cents. A leader's guide with suggestions for the use of all the projects will be sent free on request.