TWO OR THREE REMARKS, GENERAL AND PARTICULAR.
China too large to be fully described in a small Book.-It is well to secure the best parts of a thing when we cannot have it all. There are no Men like our own Countrymen, and no Country in the World like Old England.-Extent of the Chinese Empire.-Chinese Decorations in the Pavilion at Brighton.-Illuminated Staircase.-Painted Ceiling.-Glass Pagoda.-Chinese Mythological God of Thunder.-Chinese Ambassador.-Chinese Collection.
"POINTS AND PICKINGS!" Rather an odd title, you will say, for a book, and yet, not a bad one, as I think I can make it appear. No one can put the world in a walnut-shell, nor cram into a little book all the concerns of a great empire. When we cannot have the whole of a good thing, it is well if we can secure its better parts. Now China is too long, too wide, too crowded with people, too strange, too full of curiosities, too everything to be