Village Life in China: A Study in Sociology

TENTH THOUSAND Chinese Characteristics
BY Rev. ARTHUR H. SMITH, D.D.
For Twenty-six Years a Missionary of the American Board in China.
With Sixteen Illustrations from Photographs, an index and a Glossary.
800, decorated cloth, $1.25
From The Independent.
There is no glamour thrown over the race, neither is there failure to recognize those qualities that have made them so backward in civilization, so hostile to foreigners, so repugnant to many in our land. Everyone interested in China or the Chinese should read the book.
From The New York Times.
If we are not to accept the studies that missionaries have made of the Chinese, whose are we to accept? We do not mean the accounts of the seminary young man who, fresh from his studies, lives in China for a six-month, and then writes of his experiences, but of the men like the author of this volume, who has had a residence of twenty-two years in China.
Mr. Smith’s volume is a highly entertaining one, showing uncommon shrewdness, with keen analysis of character.
From The Critic.
There is all the difference between an intaglio in onyx and a pencil scrawl on paper to be discovered between Mr. Smith’s book and the printed prattle of the average globe-trotter. Our author’s work has been done, as it were, with a chisel and an emery wheel. He goes deeply beneath the surface.