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.
From The Standard.
It is much the most interesting book upon China which we have ever read, and it is specially valuable as a practical commentary upon the national and social institutions of the Chinese, the natural effect of their long isolation, and the benumbing effect of such a religion as has in great part made them what they are.
From The Living Church.
That this is the most valuable account of the Chinese ever written is, we believe, generally acknowledged.
From The Missionary Review of the World.
Every chapter is a thesaurus of startling antithesis, humorous portraitures, acute observation and marvelous sagacity.... The book is most delightful reading, and will be found most fascinating. It is a mirror of Chinese characteristics, as its name indicates. Within its pages we have found a volume of aphorisms and sage sayings seldom embraced in such a book.—Rev. A. T. Pierson, D.D.
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