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Title: Children of China

Author: C. Campbell Brown

Release date: July 12, 2020 [eBook #62625]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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CHILDREN OF CHINA

“The good man is he who does not lose his child-heart.”—Mencius, 371-288 B.C.

“What the leaves are to the forest,
With light and air for food,
Ere their sweet and tender juices
Have been hardened into wood.
That to the world are children;
Through them it feels the glow
Of a brighter and sunnier climate
That reaches the trunks below.
Come to me, O ye children!
And whisper in my ear
What the birds and the winds are singing
In your sunny atmosphere.
Ye are better than all the ballads
That ever were sung or said;
For ye are living poems,
And all the rest are dead.”
Longfellow.

THE EMPEROR OF CHINA

CHILDREN OF CHINA

BY
COLIN CAMPBELL BROWN
AUTHOR OF
“CHINA IN LEGEND AND STORY”

WITH EIGHT COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS

OLIPHANTS LTD.
LONDON EDINBURGH

Uniform with this Volume

CHILDREN OF INDIA
By Janet Harvey Kelman
CHILDREN OF CHINA
By G. Campbell Brown
CHILDREN OF AFRICA
By James B. Baird
CHILDREN OF ARABIA
By John Cameron Young
CHILDREN OF JAMAICA
By Isabel C. Maclean
CHILDREN OF JAPAN
By Janet Harvey Kelman
CHILDREN OF EGYPT
By L. Crowther
CHILDREN OF CEYLON
By Thomas Moscrop
CHILDREN OF PERSIA
By Mrs Napier Malcolm
CHILDREN OF LABRADOR
By Mary Lane Dwight
CHILDREN OF SOUTH AMERICA
By Katharine A. Hodge
CHILDREN OF BORNEO
By Edwin H. Gomes, M.A.
CHILDREN OF WILD AUSTRALIA
By Herbert Pitts

Printed in Great Britain by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh
Bound by Anderson & Ferrier, St Mary Street, Edinburgh

TO
ROBIN, MARGERY AND HUGH