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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2197, 9 July 1914, Page 9

'Chinese editors do.their.best to.soften the blow'when they return manuscripts. .Tho rojeetiou slip of theiTain-Poo reads like- this^^t- I 'Most honoured brother of tho sun antlniooii,—Your slave bows deeply at .your feet.: -1 kiss the earth' before you, and .1 beg, to" be kindly permitted to live and to talk. Your hon-. oured inanuscript'has deigned' to cast its ligh| upoii our.-eyes." -With" rapture wo have perused it. Ne.verhaye we beheld such wit, such pathos, ;such; learning, such excellence. With fear and trouibling'wo'return''.tho manuscript; Did wo dare to publish it, tho President would issue,a decree ordering us to take:.your jowol as a model and never dare to publish anything inferior to it. Our loiig oxperienco in journalism teaches usHhat 'such pearls can' bojjioduce.donly oiice in a thousand-years.''' That .'.is why wo must return-it.. .Wo crave 'peas.. .-Behold' .w,6 ar.q gtjMJJir. fe.etj,'-i •' ;