JAPAN 
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“ The Gist of Japan: ” 
The Islands, their People and Missions. 
By Rev. R. B. PEERY, A.M., Ph.D. 
“A comprehensive and lucid account of the chief natural features and 
national characteristics of Japan.”— Academy* 
11 Besides giving a very full and succinct account of the progress of missionary 
work in Japan, this book can be read by anyone wishing to become closer 
acquainted with this interesting country, its people, and their beliefs and 
customs. . . This work is commendably outspoken, and free from prejudice.” 
European Mail. 
“This is an interesting and honest book, and its statements gain by its 
extreme candour, as well as palpable sincerity, of the writer.''— Standard. 
“ Mr. Peery’s account of Christianity in Japan sums up the experience of 
many years’ earnest work as an American Lutheran missionary, chiefly in the 
province of Saga, in Western Japan. It is by far the most authoritative state¬ 
ment on the subject that we have met with.”— Athenceum. 
“A volume of great merit, and is of much more value than the ordinary 
traveller’s estimate of the island empire. The book is a storehouse of facts 
regarding Japan, and only a resident with considerable powers of observation 
could have told us what the author does.”— Evening News (Edinburgh). 
“ A capital book of accurate information, well illustrated, and full of 
common sense.’’— Nation. 
“ We commend this book to the reader, if he wishes to know what sort of a 
country Japan is, and what is doing in it.”— Free Church Monthly. 
“ The volume commends itself by its store of information, and by the 
judicious use made of it, as well as by the interesting manner in which it is 
written.-— British Weekly. 
* ‘ A valuable addition to the missionary literature of the time. Dr. Peery 
writes from intimate knowledge of his subject, and he treats it with much 
wisdom and breadth of view. No one who masters this book can fail to have 
a full and intelligent acquaintance with this remarkable people. ''—-Christian. 
‘ * To be the work of a missionary, this book is surprisingly unbiassed, and for 
the space devoted to them the mere secular aspects of the country and the 
people have been treated in a way that excites our genuine admiration.”— 
N.B. Daily Mail. 
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