ON THE WAR IN THE EAST.

All in the East seems so dawdling and queer! Bogus engagements, and battles pour rire, Militant meetings—where nobody meets— Ghostly armies and phantom fleets; "Terrible slaughter"—with never a blow, Corpse-choked rivers that maps do not show; Wild contradiction and vagueness extreme, Faith, it all reads like some Flowery Land dream, Arabian-nightish, and opium-bred, Japanese-spookish, delirium-fed, Wild, willow-patternish; sort of a "War" Johnny might paint on a blue ginger-jar. Wonder how long such a queer war will wag on? No one can tell—when 'tis Dragon v. Dragon!