Friendly Books on Far Cathay

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Excerpt from Friendly Books on Far Cathay: Being a Bibliography for the Student, and a Synopsis of Chinese History The following Bibliography and Synopsis of Chinese History were prepared in 1916 for the benefit of the Students of the British Chamber of Commerce Language School, at the request of the President of the Chamber, Mr. Archibald Rose, C.I.E. A small edition (now exhausted), was privately distributed, and in response to numerous requests a re-print has been made, this I have presented to the N. C. B. R. A. S. and it will be sold for the benefit of the Society. In the re-print, the paper that - illustrated by lantern slides - was read to the students is included. The title "Friendly Books" was, at the suggestion of Mr. Rose, borrowed from that most charming work on astronomy, "The Friendly Stars, " by Marther Evans, a work which succeeds in persuading the laymen that the constellations and the planets may play an important part in the life of the least scientific of men. It is hoped that this list of "Friendly Books" may serve a like purpose by making the East more comprehensible to the West. No attempt has been made to epitomize the complicated political situations that have succeeded one another since 1916 - but the names of a few books that have appeared in the interval have been added. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.