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Amid a crowd of 10,000 Chinese, gathered to watch the parades and incense-burning, Mr. Six produced the inevitable occidental camera and started to take snapshots. The devotees of Mercy mobbed the amateur photographer and beat him senseless. Chinese Christian converts from a neighboring missionary school rescued Mr. Six...
But the touch that apparently makes Oriental and Occidental kin is the announcement of Reverend Potter's suggestion that an All-American bible be written. By one literary tour de force the life and writings of the smuggler Hancock become enshrined in the American Genesis; Daniel Boone becomes the leader...
"The occidental world is particular the United States is usually surprised when it learns that the Filipinos are Christians and have been for a early four centuries. The Filipines were Christianized by the Spanish monks in the sixteenth century and the thoroughness of the work of these Spanish ecclesiastics is...
The Story. A Hindu of Brahmin parentage, born and brought up in a small village near Calcutta, Mukerji, in Caste (the first section), is able to give a most interesting and obviously veracious account of a certain section of Indian life-something of which even the cleverest of Occidental writers...
The Significance. In the first place the exciting and vivid recital, told with candor and humor, of a pilgrim in search of true wisdom, West and East-a recital punctuated with adventures as odd as any of Sinbad the Sailor's. In the second, an illuminating and informative exposition...