inevitable explosion. My own conviction, expressed in my first edition, that the only hope of continued national existence for Korea lay in the maintenance of her connection with China has not, in my opinion, been falsified by the issue of the campaign, since the independence, which was the nominal pretext of the latter, and is now claimed as its result, is a phantom which not even the interested auspices of Japan have so far persuaded to materialise, and which will assuredly be the source of further trouble in the future. CHINA 'And so he passed with his folk, and wan the Lond of Cathay, that is the Grettest Kyngdom of the World' SIR JOHN MAUNDEVILLE: Travels CHAPTER VIII THE COUNTRY AND CAPITAL OF CHINA Minæque Murorum ingentes, æquataque machina cœlo. VIRGIL: Eneid iv. 88, 89. Transition A MORE singular contrast can scarcely be found than is |