HUNTING IN NORTH CHINA

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 187, 4 May 1940, Page 15

HUNTING IN NORTH CHINA

“Cliincse Hunter,” by J. Wong Quincey London: Hale).

One does not associate big-game" hunting in any way with the Chinese," but if the exploits of Professor Wong Quincey have any influence on his-, compatriots one may have to do so, in the future. Wong Quincey is an 1 enthusiastic hunter, and he writes so s engagingly that he makes the readershare his enthusiasm. He does not belong to the ranks of great hunters —he cheerfully admits having missed five times as many animals as he has hit , —but as a recorder of hunting ad-' ventures in humorous, lively style he is in the first class. Moreover, his expeditions have all been in territories'; well beyond the range of the ordinary' European.sportsmen. As Lin Yutang writes in a foreword: “This is a unique book, not only because it is a story of big-game hunting by a professor of Shakespeare and English drama in the seventeenth century at a Chinese college, but also because it ;is a book about hunting, written so honestly and humanly and told with so much real zest that it captivates a reader like myself who cannot distinguish between a 12-gauge shotgun and a .500 express and never.-saw wild animals he avowed to exist in North China.”