"Alice in Wonderland" will in future be a banned book'to school children in the Province of Hunan, in China. General Ho Cliien. the Governor of the province, has issued an official order prohibiting schools from using text-books in which conversations between animnls are recorded. "Bears, lions, and other beasts," he points out, "cannot use a human language, and to attribute to them such power is an insult to the human race. Any children reading such text-books must inevitably regard animals and human beings as on the same level; and this would be'disastrous."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 86, 8 October 1931, Page 22
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92Page 22 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 86, 8 October 1931, Page 22
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