By John Stuart Thomson; published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis and New York; seventy-one splendid illustrations, three colored maps, $2.50; and by T. Warner Laurie, Fleet Street, London, 12s. 6d.

PRESS COMMENTS

Cook’s Tours Annual, 1911–12, page 108, recommends this book to world tourists.

Philadelphia Item: “It is not only the most authoritative, valuable and up-to-date book on China; it is also the most readable.”

Paris La Nouvelle Revue: “You will not find its equal as first-hand information. Treated with marvelous mastership ... a keen observer ... full of puissant interest.”

New York Herald: “A very complete view, graphically dealt with.”

New York American: “The definitive book on China.”

New York Evening Post and New York Nation: “Relates in a humorous vein his rich observations. It is refreshing to find so much valuable and fresh information expressed in a quaint and original manner. A comprehensive grasp of the greatest problem of the Far East.... Prophetic words.... One of the most interesting and instructive books on the Chinese; ... most charming.”

New York Tribune: “A fund of descriptive information.”

New York Times: “The British reviewers speak as enthusiastically of this book as the American journals have done. Written in a pleasant and easy manner.... He is the happy possessor of a highly developed efficiency and sense of humor.... Should prove agreeable to a great circle of readers.... Excellent descriptive powers and gift of observation.... Of inestimable use to the student, merchant or traveler.”

New York Sun: “Fresh and seeing eyes; a flowing pen; that human sympathy which counts greatly in gaining sympathetic readers; an astonishing quantity of facts presented with so light a hand as to invite the reader on almost every page; ... brilliantly clear photographs; Mr. Thomson’s text itself is almost pictorial.”

Chicago Journal: “The only readable book ever written about that weirdly interesting people.”

Columbus Journal: “A book that is believed to be the best English definition yet given of the Chinese and their country.”

Portland, Oregon, Chamber of Commerce Bulletin: “This volume is in the forefront of them all.”

Philadelphia Press: “For the American there is no book on China equal to this one.”

Pittsburgh Dispatch: “Our leading authority on Far Eastern questions; he enunciates the American doctrine of the Far East.”

London News: “Few writers have dealt satisfactorily with the subject, and there was plenty of room for such a book as The Chinese.... He has given a valuable and instructive picture of China as she stands to-day at her time of crisis.”

London Times: “Knows China intimately; keen eye for detail; terse and graphic style; ... mass of information.”

Hongkong, China, Mail: “Keenly observant; shrewd and sympathetic insight; ... a vision of China of the present day, very telling in its brightness and jauntiness of comparison; splendidly phrased.”

New York Commercial: “Most acute and pertinent observer. Fascinating qualities of style not unworthy of the brilliant pen of Macaulay. The book has a deep and permanent delight.”

Chicago Banker: “A new authoritative treatise by a writer resident in China for years.”

Edinburgh Scotsman: “It may be doubted if there has been a volume published for a long time which gives a better idea of the present condition of the country.... He gives a vivid impression and is endowed with a gift of humor.”