Literature.

The article presents information on the book "The Memoirs of Li Hung Chang," edited by William Francis Mannix. The book purporting to be derived from a great mass of manuscripts left by that statesman, may be accepted in the Western world without much comment because people now know that Chinese are subject to like passions as Americans and are able to commit indiscretions in their letters and diaries like other people. In other words, the figment of the "inscrutable" Chinaman has begun to disappear.