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over the phone did not know it by that name), to look for a dog. Excellent dogs are often sold there, and the universal price is four dollars. We found none that we liked enough to bother to carry with us so returned to the bookshop where we had spent an hour in the morning, and invested my birthday money from home in Binyon's [[underline]] Painting in the Far East [[/Underlined]], which I have long been wanting to possess, and in a copy of Ferguson's [[underline]] Outlines of Chinese Art [[/Underlined]], which it is well for us to add to our collection of art books; though both of these I have seen and read before. I am trying gradually to get a collection of foreign books on Chinese art, though it must come slowly as they are exceedingly expensive. 

In the evening Mr. and Mrs. T.B. Chang came over to have supper with us. We had a table to ourselves, and a good visit. T.B. gets quite worked up when discussing the indignities to which the Chinese are regularly treated by the British, and, though not sure what the present movement can accomplish, he is strongly in favor of abolishing foreign special privilege. He took the stand that I have consistently taken, that the way to help a nation or an individual to become trustworthy and responsible is by giving it trust and responsibility. He spoke again, as two years ago, of the difficulty of keeping order in China when factions and individuals are stirred up and supported, officially or other wise by foreign powers and foreigners. T.B.'s health is better now, though his heart still bothers him. They have a new and better house with all modern improvements. His account, from first hand observation, of the treatment of Chinese in the foreign supervised police stations, was sickening. Coarse, brutal insults, and no chance of any kind for the victim to offer a word in his defence. The foreigners fear that they will not get justice in Chinese courts under the abrogation of extraterritoriality, but no Chinese can get justice now in the courts of the foreign settlement. Quite probably it is case of the old fact that the persecutor always hates and fears his victim, the more for the more persecution. I was interested when T.B. professed to be not surprised at my decision to stay in China. He said he had expected it, since I had come to China with an open mind, and could not but be charmed by the merits of the country and her civilization. -- We took the night train to Nanking.