The Feast of Lanterns
19202264226Frederick A. Stokes Company 1920. 8th Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8th printing. No jacket ink name and pencil note on front endpaper front hinge starting. 1920 Hard Cover. 204 pp. EXCERPT: "Every Chinese is born into surroundings of pre eminent beauty-beauty of form beauty of color beauty of exquisite juxtapositions - natural beauty and beauty of all things that are made; into beauty and into an almost untainted atmosphere of good-taste and intrinsic kindliness. Consciously or unconsciously every Chinese is a sin cere lover of nature and of everything lovely. No other people has so stern and uncompromising a sense of justice so ready a sense of humor more balance more uninching loyalty or less exaggerated estimate of the importance of self. It is a proud people without vanity - a self-reliant strong people lacking brutality; suave without affectation dignified without self-as sertion - free from ridiculousness industrious con tented; hard-working dreamers who too are shrewdly practical honest above all other races home-keeping home-loving; first of all peoples in its love of children and in its chivalrous treatment and just estimate of womanhood. Frederick A. Stokes Company hardcover books
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