Lin Yutang, young Chinese who
has lived in both Europe and Amer
ica, has avoided, she says, the mis
takes of those books “written in de
fense of that which is too great to,
need defense -written to inprtss
foreigners and therefore unworthy
of China.” For Lin Yutang, by his
own confession, holds his country
* above necessity of interpretation:
»‘I love my country,” he says, “but
I have taken care to conceal it from
my countrymen, for one may wear
the cloak of patriotism to tatters
and in those tatters be paraded
through- the streets to one s death,
China as in any other nation
of the world.”
His approach to his subject is sim
ple: “One must approach through
j ije sense of humanity. The boy's
roughness and the girls' daydreams
and the ring of childrens' laughter
and the patter of children’s feet
and the weeping of women and the
corrows of men—they are all alike
and only through the sorrows of
men and the weeping of women
fan we truly understand a nation.”
Some quotations from a book
which everyone should read:
“Greatness is often the term we
confer on what we do not under
stand and wish to have done with”
—“Once China had a destiny. Once
she was a conqueror. Now her
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