KOREA. 
Crown 8vo, Cloth Extra, with Eight Illustrations, Price 3s. 6d. 
“Korean Sketches” 
A Missionary’s Observations in the Hermit Nation. 
By the Rev. J. S. GALE. 
“ The author of ‘ Korean Sketches' has gone in and out among the people for nine 
years. He has done so, moreover, as his book shows, in the kind of temper which quali¬ 
fies a man to see what is best in a strange and very little understood race. ”— Standard. 
“ Mr. Gale, who has spent nine years in intimate association with the Koreans, has, 
notwithstanding his banishment, retained a keen sense of humour, and some of the stories 
he tells of the life of foreigners such as himself in Korea, and their troubles with the 
native domestics, both male and female, remind one in their pungency and apparent 
faithfulness of the highly successful and pleasing sketches of life in India which were 
written a few years ago by ‘ Eha,’ and published under the title, ‘ Behind the Bungalow.’ ” 
—Morning Post. 
“A very pleasant and enlivening companion for a winter evening."— Christian 
World. 
“ Mr. Gale has lived for years among the Hermit people, and his pictures of the life 
of one of the quaintest and oldest of living races are most entertaining and instructive. 
He writes brightly and has many good stories to tell, and the illustrations, which are 
remarkable for their excellence, add greatly to the value of the book. Altogether this is 
a thoroughly interesting and stimulating little volume.”— Bookman. 
“The book overflows with information useful to the traveller, the diplomatist, and 
the missionary.”— Baptist. 
“A tastefully printed and illustrated book is Mr. Gale’s record of his missionary 
travels in the Hermit Kingdom. We have read the book with interest, and do not find a 
dull line from cover to cover. We hope Mr. Gale’s book will be widely read, not only 
here, but in America.”— Irish Church News. 
% “Our readers will find it a mine of information regarding a people about whom and 
their country next to nothing is known in the rest of the world.”— Christian Banner. 
“The sketches are humorous, pathetic, and fascinating, and they illustrate among 
other things the difficulties which the Christian missionary has to encounter in heathen 
lands.”— Belfast Evening Telegraph. 
“ All who wish to gain something like a real insight into Korean life and character, 
cannot do better than read this book. Mr. Gale has compiled a really interesting and 
readable volume, which gives us a good deal of information concerning a country about 
which comparatively little is known.”— London and China Telegraph. 
“ Mr. Gale is an American Presbyterian missionary, who lives in this unknown land, 
and has learned to love its people. The book is full of colour and nearly as full 01 
humour. Never say you know human nature until you have seen the Koreans through 
this author’s eyes. The book is all that can be desired externally, and is enriched by 
numerous illustrations.”— Scottish Congregationalist. 
“ His book of Korean life and character is a valuable contribution to our scanty 
knowledge of the ‘ Hermit Kingdom.’ We knew nothing of Korea before reading this 
book, but on putting it down we had a picture of it in our mind’s eye, almost as vivid as 
if we had lived there. This is conclusive proof that Mr. Gale’s ‘ Korean Sketches ’ have 
succeeded in the aim which inspired them.”— Sunday School Chronicle. 
1 ‘ These sketches of Korean life and character, written by one who has passed some 
years in intimate association with all classes of the people of the Hermit Kingdom, will 
be found very interesting and instructive.”— Asiatic Quarterly Review. 
“ We strongly recommend this delightful book.”— Y.M.C. Magazine. 
OLIPHANT, ANDERSON & FERRIER, 
ST. MARY STREET, EDINBURGH; 
21 PATERNOSTER SQUARE, T.ONDON. E.C. 
