[135]De Guignes, Voyage a Peking v. 2, p. 325.
[136]It would however, be as unjust to judge average Chinese plays by this one instance as to judge of the Shakesperian drama by “Titus Andronicus.”
[137]Voyage to Cochin China, p. 295.
[138]In like manner physiologists at one time endeavored to account for the peculiar singing of the Tyrolese peasantry (called the “yodel”) by the theory that the Tyrolese throat was shaped differently from throats in general. Anatomy exploded the assumption.
[139]La Fage, Mus. des Chinois, v. 1, p. 311.
[140]Edward Brown, Adventures In Cochin China, p. 221, quoted by Engel Mus. Myths and facts, vol. 2, p. 157.
[141]DuHalde, Description de l’emp. de la Chine. T. 2, p. 156.
[142]LaFage, Mus. des. Chin., T. 1, p. 313.
[143]Barrow’s life of Macartney, v. 1, pp. 341-2
[144]Ibid, p. 337.