The Chinese People: a Handbook on China (with maps and illustrations) by the Venerable Arthur Evans Moule, D. missionary to the Chinese from 1861 erly Archdeacon in Mid-China, Ree-for of Barwarion with Cleobury North pp. 40. Society for Promoting Christ Knowledge 1914. 5/- net.
To the venerable author's personal bibliography of matters Chinese, list already of no mean proportions, always interesting, ever informing, must be added this last production of his industrious and facile pen; his third book since his retirement, only some four years ago, from the China mission field in which he had laboured since 1861 with zeal undiminished and a success attained by few.
His former works, notably " New China and Old," which has passed into a third edition, a unique achievement for a book on China, and "Half a Century in which bids fair to follow in its footsteps, appealed to a wide-reading public, but the book now under Notice is of more concern to the student—particularly the student of foreign missions to whom, indeed, it is more especially addressed. being as it is of a real academic and esoteric nature and not a graphic story. Its sub-title 'A Handbook on China" is something of a misnomer, for this book is anything but a manual, guide book or epitome. but rather a veritable treatise, and the publishers aver no more than the simple truth when in their view is not too much to say that it gives a fuller account of the Celestial Empire at the present day than can be found anywhere else." And the appreciative criticisms of such intellectual forces as the "Morning Post," " Spectator," " Globe," (whose literary columns are vying with The Time: rary supplement), "Guardian," etc., besides a great mass of secular and _nonsecular papers and magazines, bear out in a marked degree this considered opinion of the publishers. Naturally enough the book gives pre-eminence to considerations of deep value in regard to native religious views and practices and to foreign mission questions, the col-Jected thoughts of a man who has for 60 many years been conspicuously in the forefront of missionary enterprise, whose name is writ large in missionary annals, and who has made full proof of his ministry, alike as a scholar, an Evangelist, a teacher and a guide. Few men can speak on that great subject with such @ wealth of experience." Such is the expressed opinion of no less an authority than the present Archbishop of Canterbury, an acknowledged judge of men and affairs. Who, then, more likely to guide
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