“It is refreshing to come across a book by a writer capable of regarding some part of the Eastern crisis from a point of view not aggressively anti-Chinese.... The causes which have led the Slav rulers to turn their steps and gravitate westward are described by M. Ular with insight and animation.... English readers are not likely to agree with all the conclusions reached by the author of this volume; but they will gain from it the removal of some prejudices, and the power of seeing more clearly certain remedies for the distracting uncertainty of Eastern politics.”--_Globe._ “The book ought to be carefully studied by every one interested in Asiatic politics.”--_Labour Leader._ “It is a most able work which demonstrates first the author’s opinions as to Russia’s carefully-planned intention to compass at least the northern portion of China into the Russian Empire, and secondly his desire to dispel the unfavourable ideas which prevail amongst Western people _re_ the Chinese.”--_London Record._ “It is a stimulant to thought and of singular originality.”--_Standard._ “A singularly acute analysis of Chinese character.”--_Yorkshire Post._ “A strikingly able book which provides much food for thought.”--_World._ Asia and Europe Studies presenting the conclusions formed by the Author in a long life devoted to the subject of the relationship between Asia and Europe. By MEREDITH TOWNSEND. New Cheaper Edition with an additional chapter. Crown 8vo, 5/- net. “It would be difficult to exaggerate the interest of this remarkable book.... An eminently suggestive book ... a very important and original piece of work.”--_Spectator._ “This is a book which every one ought to read and ponder. It is so well written, so intensely interesting and actual, so speculative and suggestive, and yet, to use an overworked expression, so thoroughly sane, that we cannot imagine any one putting it down until he has reached the very last page; and when it is done, most people will wish to begin it again.”--_Saturday Review._ “There is much which cannot be commended too highly.”--_Athenæum._ “The work contains enough thought to furnish a careful reader with intellectual food for twelve months, and it is a worthy monument to a life spent in studying a single subject, the relations between Asia and Europe.... It is inspired throughout by a tolerant judgment.... The book is consistently charming.”--_Morning Post._ “A fascinating group of studies entitled Asia and Europe.... The fact that Mr. Townsend is not a philanthropist or a party politician makes his judgment the more valuable, while the really admirable literary gift which he possesses will certainly allure the most tepid fingerer of volumes from the circulating library to read the book from cover to cover.”--_Manchester Guardian._ The Story of a Soldier’s Life