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Japan, The Picture Country of the Orient 1
First Impressions of Japan and the Life of the Japanese-- The Japanese Capital and its Parks and Temples--The Most Famous City of Temples in all Japan--In Kyoto, The Ancient Capital of Japan--Kobe, Osaka, The Inland Sea and Nagasaki--Development of the Japanese Sense of Beauty--Conclusions on Japanese Life and Character-- Will the Japanese Retain Their Good Traits?
Manila, Transformed by the Americans 49
First Impressions of Manila and Its Picturesque People-- American Work in the Philippine Islands--Scenes in the City of Manila and Suburbs.
Hongkong, Canton, Singapore and Rangoon 63
Hongkong, the Greatest British Port in the Orient--A Visit to Canton in Days of Wild Panic--Singapore, the Meeting Place of Many Races--strange Night Scenes in the City of Singapore--Characteristic Sights in Burma's Largest City.
India, The Land of Temples, Palaces and Monuments 93
Calcutta, the Most Beautiful of Oriental Cities--Bathing, and Burning the Dead at Benares--Lucknow and Cawnpore, Cities of the Mutiny--The Taj Mahal, the World's Loveliest Building--Delhi and Its Ancient Mohammedan Ruins--Scenes in Bombay When the King Arrived--Religion and Customs of the Bombay Parsees.
Egypt, The Home of Hieroglyphs, Tombs and Mummies 135
Picturesque Oriental Life as Seen in Cairo--Among the Ruins of Luxor and Karnak--Tombs of The Kings at Ancient Thebes--Sailing Down the Nile on a Small Steamer--Before the Pyramids and the Sphinx.
Hints for Travelers 167
Some Suggestions That May Save the Tourist Time and Money.
Bibliography 171
Books Which Help One to Understand the Orient and Its People.
Index 175
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The Daibutsu or Great Bronze Buddha at Hyogo 30
Imperial Gate, Fort Santiago, Manila 56
The City of Boats at Canton 74
Hindoos Bathing in the Ganges at Benares 100
Front View of the Taj Mahal, Agra 114
One of the Main Avenues of Bombay 126
The Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak 146
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Street Scene, Asakusa Park, Tokyo I
Entrance Hall of Modern Home of a Tokyo Millionaire II
Sacred Red Bridge at Nikko IV
Avenue of Cryptomeria to Futaaru Temple, Nikko V
Avenue of Cryptomeria Trees, near Nikko VI
Scene on Canal, Kyoto X
On the Malecon Drive, Manila XX
View of the Water-front at Canton XXX
Palm Avenue, Royal Lakes, Rangoon XL
One of the Main Gates to Government House, Calcutta XLI
A Street Scene in Calcutta XLII
View of the Bathing Ghats at Benares XLIV
A Holy Man of Benares Under His Umbrella XLV
The Residency at Lucknow XLVI
The Jasmine Tower in Agra Fort L
Snap-shot of a Jain Family at Agra LI
The Fort at Agra Which Encloses Many Palaces LII
Shah Jehan's Heaven on Earth, Delhi LIV
Street View in Delhi LV
A Parsee Tower of Silence at Bombay LVI
The Rameseon at Karnak LX
Introduction
This book of impressions of the Far East is called "The Critic in the Orient," because the writer for over thirty years has been a professional critic of new books--one trained to get at the best in all literary works and reveal it to the reader. This critical work--a combination of rapid reading and equally rapid written estimate of new publications--would have been deadly, save for a love of books, so deep and enduring that it has turned drudgery into pastime and an enthusiasm for discovering good things in every new book which no amount of literary trash was ever able to smother.
After years of such strenuous critical work, the mind becomes molded in a certain cast. It is as impossible for me to put aside the habit of the literary critic as it would be for a hunter who had spent his whole life in the woods to be content in a great city. So when I started out on this trip around the world the critical apparatus which I had used in getting at the heart of books was applied to the people and the places along this great girdle about the globe.
Much of the benefit of foreign travel depends upon the reading that one has done. For years my eager curiosity about places had led me to read everything printed about the Orient and the South Seas. Add to this the stories which were brought into a newspaper office by globe trotters and adventurers, and you have an equipment which made me at times seem to be merely revising impressions made on an earlier journey. When you talk with a man who has spent ten or twenty years in Japan or China or the Straits Settlements, you cannot fail to get something of the color of life in those strange lands, especially if you have the newspaper training which impels you to ask questions and to drag out of your informant everything of human interest that the reader will care to know.
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