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As A Chinaman Saw Us, by Anonymous
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Title: As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home
Author: Anonymous
Editor: Henry Pearson Gratton
Release Date: October 2, 2007 [EBook #22831]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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[Illustration: A CHINESE BOOK COVER DECORATION
Made when the Anglo-Saxon people were living in caves]
AS A CHINAMAN
SAW US
PASSAGES FROM HIS LETTERS TO A FRIEND AT HOME
[Illustration: Publisher's logo]
NEW YORK AND LONDON APPLETON AND COMPANY 1916
COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America
PREFACE
Since the publication in 1832 of that classic of cynicism, The Domestic Manners of the Americans, by Mrs. Trollope, perhaps nothing has appeared that is more caustic or amusing in its