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 torecognize those qualities that have made them so backward in civilization,so hostile to foreigners, so repugnant to many in our land. Everyoneinterested 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 theChinese, whose are we to accept? We do not mean the accounts of theseminary young man who, fresh from his studies, lives in China for asix-month, and then writes of his experiences, but of the men like theauthor of this volume, who has had a residence of twenty-two years inChina.

Mr. Smith’s volume is a highly entertaining one, showing uncommonshrewdness, with keen analysis of character.

From The Critic.

There is all the difference between an intaglio in onyx and a pencilscrawl on paper to be discovered between Mr. Smith’s book and the printedprattle of the average globe-trotter. Our author’s work has been done, asit were, with a chisel and an emery wheel. He goes deeply beneath thesurface.

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 nationaland social institutions of the Chinese, the natural effect of their longisolation, and the benumbing effect of such a religion as has in greatpart made them what they are.

From The Living Church.

That this is the most valuable account of the Chinese ever written is, webelieve, generally acknowledged.

From The Missionary Review of the World.

Every chapter is a thesaurus of startling antithesis, humorousportraitures, acute observation and marvelous sagacity.... The book ismost delightful reading, and will be found most fascinating. It is amirror of Chinese characteristics, as its name indicates. Within its pageswe have found a volume of aphorisms and sage sayings seldom embraced insuch a book.—Rev. A. T. Pierson, D.D.

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