Dr. Tyau is best known to foreigners as the author of "London through Chinese eyes,' a book which was very favourably commented on by the press; he writes good English and puts his thoughts before the reader in a lucid and interesting style.
His book is printed on good thick paper and has, including appendices, nearly 500 pages. Its theme is the new China, and Dr. Tyau has, with the enthusiasm of youth, depicted his country in the most glowing tints. This is perfectly excusable, perhaps, even commendable, in the case of a Chinese desiring to exhibit his country's virtues to the outside world. But to one who sees China through foreign eyes it is impossible to endorse the author's panegyrics. He paints an ideal China that may day come into being but is at present almost as mythical as the golden age of Yao and Sun. Dr. Tyau's foreword is a paean on the progress of the great Republic.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.