To the reader Interested inthe history, culture und art of China a book of this kind, the result evident ly of careful and selective study: of All the best authorities, both, Chinese sections more tha detail has. be tural a putty" as ICT get him at a advantage, TH take my' revenge on him"? Yet it was obviously a good husbandman who evolved the 3
"No good apple un a sour stock." How that saying was adapted to" other walks of life besides husbandry does nol, appear in this. dictionary.
Some of the liter ones, oe, would afford much opportunity for speculation ax (0 origin. Thus one no older than 33" years: "Kick an attorney downstairs a fe." Most certain! any prospects for recovering di for, wssuull. Or again "Keystone under the hearth, keystone under the horse's belly," goes no further back than to the smuggling days when ce traband cither was hidden beneath the hearthstone, or in the stable beneath where the horse stood. Nowadays With the tariff in force, the saying might be changed in Britain to "Key stone under the hearth, keystone under the bonnet"—of " moier corn. lopment of the Chi their unique eivitizat fers. on art, religion teach of the seven sections are of great interest and value and show that the author has not only devoted consider fable study 10 his subject but has Appreciation of Chinese culture all its aspects.
'A specially interesting and valuable feature of the book is the attention eTangand Sung TOuh to 12th respectively). The truly disastrous effect of the Mtongot invasion and temporary ascendency during the 13th and Mth centuries is tightly emphasized and one sighs to think of the treasures of art and liter ature which have been lost to China id the World as the result of that uncultured incursion. But tunate death of Tamerlane ut his preparations. for invasion there might have a complete nection of all forms of Chinese art
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