The Mongol in our midst : a study of man and his three faces / by F. G. Crookshank.

  • Francis Graham Crookshank
Date:
1924
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    MAN AND HIS THREE FACES in Western Europe there are many persons who display physical character¬ istics of the Mongolian races, and that these persons, though often ' original,' are also not infrequently gifted. No jest is more popular, in French comic papers, than one representing a recruit from certain rural districts as a Chinaman ; no one who has passed observingly through certain French villages can have failed to notice many charming and intelligent girls of twelve or fourteen who would make delightful little geishas at a fancy dress ball ; and Marcel Prévost more than once makes allusion to the Mongolian stig¬ mata and slightly fissured lips of his fascinating if frail heroines. Again, one of the most celebrated of living Frenchmen, long known as ' le vieux Tatar ' was in The Times of March i2th, 1921, thus described by Mr. Lansing : ' ... he suggested ill face and figure a Chinese mandarin of the old Empire. I say this with all respect for the man whom I would describe. He [ 13]