by His Excellency FRITS HOLM, 6.c¢.. LL.d., p.c.L., D.Sc.
This book presents the popular account of adventurous exploration and travel in the interior provinces of the Middle Kingdom, commanded by Dr. Holm. The principal object of his expedition, which an American prelate called a "great achievement," was to secure a perfect stone Replica of the nine-foot Chinese Christian Nestorian Monument, erected A.D. 781, and excavated A.D. 1625.
The chapters deal with Dr. Holm's kazardous journey, its incidents and accidents, his privations, an attempt on his life, and the incredible difficulties he had to overcome in order to transport a two-ton, inscribed "slab of limenlane came 250 miles of impassable roads Shake' Gad' Hannay provinces.
Dr. Holm's narrative is full of interest, and vividly recalls the indomitable spirit of the first Christian missionaries who. 13 centuries ago. faced death and danger to carry our Faith to the Confucian fastnesses of the Farthest East.
The book is fully illustrated with the author's photographs and a map.
Net Price $7.70 Mexican
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.