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This article is awful and needs completely rewriting. Any rewrite should use:
-- Toddy1 ( talk) 20:52, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
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Would it not be more correct for 1st Baron Beresford to form part of the article title as accessed, rather than Lord Charles Beresford? His barony was arguably of senior rank to his familial title of Lord Charles Beresford (held as younger son of a Marquess). Cloptonson ( talk) 19:55, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
http://books.google.com/books?id=EfflAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA535#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=FWgKAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA289#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=hLs0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA289#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=VSZRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1021#v=onepage&q&f=false
Rajmaan ( talk) 06:46, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
The style of the book is that of a man of action, and calls for no comment, but Lord Charles Beresford should have submitted his proof .sheets to some one more familiar with the Far East in order to avoid eccentricities of spelling that disfigure his pages. We find " Habarovak" and "Habarosk," both' standing, we presume, for Khabarovsk or Khabarovka; "Kansuh " for Kansu—also spelled correctly; the ridiculous Gallicism "Tonquin "; "Blagovensk" for Blagovyeshchensk or Blagovechensk; "Chung Chi Tung" many times for our old friend Chang Chih-tung (we rubbed our eyes, by the way, when we found this undoubtedly able, patriotic, and clean-handed Chinaman described as "celebrated for his friendly and courteous bearing to all foreigners " !); "Yingkau" (the port of Newchwang) for Yingtzu; "Fookien " for Fukien; and not a few others. The amiable junior Chinese member of the Legislative Council of Hongkong was Mr. Wei-yuk when the present reviewer knew him, not "Weityuk." Lord Charles apparently was not told that "E-wo" is the Chinese name in Shanghai of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co.; a fighting man should not have allowed the familiar newfashioned and old-fashioned rifles to be called respectively "Mannlicker" and "Sneider "; and the Elswick-built cruiser which the Japanese Government placed at the author's disposition was surely the Takasako, and not the "Takasago." These inaccuracies, however, though they might easily have been avoided, are the merest trifles in comparison with the value—the momentous value—of the book. Particularly the industry of the author is to be commended. In an astonishingly short time he visited all the chief foci of foreign interest in China, and at every one he collected precisely the facts and opinions essential to a correct judgment. There is hardly a page of "padding" or an irrelevant reflection, and it is the duty of every Englishman who thinks, speaks, or writes about the Chinese problem to read the volume from beginning to end. With one possible exception I see no point at which Lerd Charles has been misled by the remarks made to him-'-no small achievement when the complex and deceptive character of the Chinese is remembered. The exception—and I lay no stress upon it—is this: every official or influential Chinaman Lord Charles met proffered the assurance of his friendliest feelings toward England, and all these assurances are duly set down as if they meant something. They would have been expressed with identical cordiality and sincerity to an American, a Russian, or a German, of the author's position and rank.
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Title Literature, Issues 64-89
Author Henry Duff Traill
Publisher The Times, 1899
Original from Indiana University
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This article is awful and needs completely rewriting. Any rewrite should use:
-- Toddy1 ( talk) 20:52, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Recently the file File:Charles William de la Poer Beresford, Baron Beresford by Charles Wellington Furse.jpg (right) was uploaded and it appears to be relevant to this article and not currently used by it. If you're interested and think it would be a useful addition, please feel free to include it. Dcoetzee 06:10, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
Would it not be more correct for 1st Baron Beresford to form part of the article title as accessed, rather than Lord Charles Beresford? His barony was arguably of senior rank to his familial title of Lord Charles Beresford (held as younger son of a Marquess). Cloptonson ( talk) 19:55, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
http://books.google.com/books?id=EfflAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA535#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=FWgKAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA289#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=hLs0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA289#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=VSZRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1021#v=onepage&q&f=false
Rajmaan ( talk) 06:46, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
The style of the book is that of a man of action, and calls for no comment, but Lord Charles Beresford should have submitted his proof .sheets to some one more familiar with the Far East in order to avoid eccentricities of spelling that disfigure his pages. We find " Habarovak" and "Habarosk," both' standing, we presume, for Khabarovsk or Khabarovka; "Kansuh " for Kansu—also spelled correctly; the ridiculous Gallicism "Tonquin "; "Blagovensk" for Blagovyeshchensk or Blagovechensk; "Chung Chi Tung" many times for our old friend Chang Chih-tung (we rubbed our eyes, by the way, when we found this undoubtedly able, patriotic, and clean-handed Chinaman described as "celebrated for his friendly and courteous bearing to all foreigners " !); "Yingkau" (the port of Newchwang) for Yingtzu; "Fookien " for Fukien; and not a few others. The amiable junior Chinese member of the Legislative Council of Hongkong was Mr. Wei-yuk when the present reviewer knew him, not "Weityuk." Lord Charles apparently was not told that "E-wo" is the Chinese name in Shanghai of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co.; a fighting man should not have allowed the familiar newfashioned and old-fashioned rifles to be called respectively "Mannlicker" and "Sneider "; and the Elswick-built cruiser which the Japanese Government placed at the author's disposition was surely the Takasako, and not the "Takasago." These inaccuracies, however, though they might easily have been avoided, are the merest trifles in comparison with the value—the momentous value—of the book. Particularly the industry of the author is to be commended. In an astonishingly short time he visited all the chief foci of foreign interest in China, and at every one he collected precisely the facts and opinions essential to a correct judgment. There is hardly a page of "padding" or an irrelevant reflection, and it is the duty of every Englishman who thinks, speaks, or writes about the Chinese problem to read the volume from beginning to end. With one possible exception I see no point at which Lerd Charles has been misled by the remarks made to him-'-no small achievement when the complex and deceptive character of the Chinese is remembered. The exception—and I lay no stress upon it—is this: every official or influential Chinaman Lord Charles met proffered the assurance of his friendliest feelings toward England, and all these assurances are duly set down as if they meant something. They would have been expressed with identical cordiality and sincerity to an American, a Russian, or a German, of the author's position and rank.
Page 535
Title Literature, Issues 64-89
Author Henry Duff Traill
Publisher The Times, 1899
Original from Indiana University
Digitized Oct 21, 2009