IMPORTANT NEW WORK ON CHINA.
CHINA
The Long-lived Empire.
By ELIZA R. SCIDMORE.
With a Portrait of the Empress-Dowager and over 50 other Illustrations.
Extra crown 8vo, 8s. 6d. net.
TIMES.—“Fascinating and instructive.... It is much more than a book of travel. In her studies of the people, in her character-sketches of the leading personalities, foreign and native, who fill the stage of the great Chinese drama, in her quick-witted appreciation of the political issues at stake, she shows herself an acute and well-informed observer who has sought diligently for the solution which must underlie the mystery of a ‘land of contradictions, puzzles, and enigmas.’”
SPECTATOR.—“The most brilliant and interesting picture of the long-lived Empire that we are acquainted with.... Her knowledge is great, her power of pictorial writing remarkable, and her style is full of light and grace.”
PILOT.—“A very readable book, crammed with information of many topics, and telling of many curious sights.”
PALL MALL GAZETTE.—“A most charming and readable book.... Once taken up the book is as hard to put down as a good novel.... We cannot too strongly recommend the perusal of this book to all at the present time. It will serve as a most admirable commentary to the all-engrossing events now passing in the Far East. There are many good illustrations.”