THE LITERARY LOUNGER
... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE SMALL GENERAL tells of three genera tions of the Sung family, silk-growers and peas ant proprietors of an island in a large lake between Soochow and Hangchow. The father is an adept in the arts of graft and squeeze, and his son, the Small General-- so called because he had charge of a flotilla of three thousand ducks --takes after him. (The grandson has but a small ...