252 OBITUARIES 



tressing complaint — an oesophageal diverticulum, which after 

 many wars of increasing misery at last caused his death, — 

 Bo that he was not widely known in a social sense; but 

 one of liis greatest joys in later years was the fellowship of 

 tin.- Learned and generous men of many lands who helped 

 id the Encyclopaedia, and made the New China Review 

 possible. 



ilver modest about his own abilities and attainments, 

 one of ln's latest wishes — oft-repeated — was that there might 

 In- "no eulogies," and this wish his friends feel bound to 

 respect. 



It may be said however, that by his courageous fight 

 with physical weakness, and his determination to work as 

 long as any strength was left, those who knew were often 

 reminded of Kobert Louis Stevenson, whom in features also 

 he strongly resembled. 



Most people will know him as the versatile compiler 

 of the Encyclopaedia Sinica: sinologues will remember the 

 plucky editor of the New China Reviews, (which seems 

 likely to close its career at the end of 1922 for lack of any 

 one to take his place) : but his best memorial is in the 

 characters and lives of certain Chinese whom he taught 

 and guided unostentatiously but thoroughly during the best 

 time of his life, — the twenty odd years he spent in a sleepy, 

 sweet old city in the interior of Shantung. 



He is survived by his wife (who at his desire, writes this 

 brief sketch) and by one son and one daughter. 



