Two Volumes, 8vo. Price, $9.00.
The wonderful advance in the arts of civilization and intellectual development made by China during the thirty-five years since this book was first written, and especially the new basis upon which its foreign relations have been established and the events that are even now occurring in this connection, render the publication of this revised edition unusually important.
“All this vast mass of new and trustworthy information concerning the ‘Middle Kingdom,’ Dr. Williams has gathered together and condensed with praiseworthy diligence and ability, and the result is an encyclopædia of China the value of which cannot be overestimated.... An exceedingly complete and accurate account of the most interesting country in the world.”—London Saturday Review.
“The revised edition of the ‘Middle Kingdom’ is the most ambitious and the best executed work, typographically speaking, that has issued for a long time from American presses. From a literary standpoint it must be regarded as the best general work on China extant, and therefore as indispensable to the reader who wishes to obtain a comprehensive view of the wonderful country and people it treats of.”—N. Y. Tribune.
COREA: THE HERMIT NATION.
By WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS,
AUTHOR OF “THE MIKADO’S EMPIRE,” AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY, TOKIO, JAPAN.
1 Vol., 8vo, with numerous maps and illustrations, new edition, $2.50.
“The work bears witness to a vast amount of well-directed labor; and while it is clothed with a rare charm for the general reader, whose curiosity regarding a long-isolated nation will for the first time be satisfied, it is also sure of a respectful and grateful reception from the student of history, ethnology, and philology. The discussion, indeed, of the Corean language in an appendix is the first essay on the subject which has seemed to us at once explicit, intelligible, and trustworthy.”—New York Sun.
EAST OF THE JORDAN.