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in and your efforts to open up such a wise old philosopher to the American reading public.”
DR. FRIEDRICH HIRTH, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Columbia University, New York City, expresses his views in a letter to the author as follows:
"I have not found the necessary leisure to examine your Tao Teh King in detail, but from what I have seen so far, your publication embodies the results arrived at by previous investigators and translators and adds improvements in many respects. I am glad to observe you published the Chinese text and the analysis of it in connection with your English translation, thus giving the critical reader every possibility to check your work. This more than anything else will encourage students to take up this line of research, which claims the highest efforts from the philologist's point of view as well as the philosopher's. Your idea of popularising works of Chinese thought will greatly contribute towards the interest taken in Chinese literature, and the method you have adopted in your representation of the Tao Teh King will serve as an excellent model for similar works of the kind.”
MISCELLANEOUS PRESS NOTICES. “It is a convenient volume through which to make such acquaintance with the Chinese language and Chinese thought as an American scholar must consider desirable in view of the present increased intercourse with the Oriental world.”-Reformed Church Review.
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