t of all the intellectual faculties. For Mrs. Chu
a plain woman with a fine figurethe ghost provided a new headof a
handsome girl recently slain by a robber. Even after Chu's death the
genial spectre did not neglect himbut obtained for him an appointment as
registrar in the next worldwith a certain rank attached.
The next worldamong the Chineseseems to be a paradise of
bureaucracypatent placesjobsmandarins' buttons and tailsandin short
the heaven of officialism. All civilised readers are acquainted with Mr.
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Stockton's humorous story of 'The Transferred Ghost.' In Mr. Stockton's
view a man does not always get his own ghostship; there is a vigorous
competition among spirits for good ghostshipsand a great deal of intrigue
and party feeling. It may be long before a disembodied spectre gets any
ghostship at alland thenif he has little influencehe may be glad to take
a chance of haunting the Board of Tradeor the Post Officeinstead of
walking
in the Foreign Office. One spirit may win a post as White
Lady in the imperial palacewhile another is put off with a position in an
old college libraryor perhaps has to follow the fortunes of some seedy
medium
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