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...were killed; but he captured Waichow. Strangely he did not lose but rather gained prestige after this prodigious but chery of his own troops, for he had himself fought in the thick of it. The reformed sinner, now a mighty hero, retired after his vic tory to a Buddhist temple for three months, a vacation period of medi tation which he has several times since repeated. The year 1922 found him in Moscow, acting as military liason officer for Dr. Sun, who had despaired by then of receiving aid from any other Great Power for his project of conquering China...
...treasure were prominent items. Colonel Kozlov estimated that the simian population of Tibet-monkeys, gorillas, mandrills-far outnumbered the human "and could supply the world's demand for rejuvenation glands for a century." In Kookooner Lake he came upon an island inhabited only by three large-framed, shaggy Buddhist monks who, never before having seen a civilized man, fled like pious cavemen...
Numerous scientific works on many different subjects have been published by this savent. Among them are: "Modern Japan, Its Political, Military, and Industrial Organization," "Colloquial Japanese"; "Manual of Buddhist Philosophy"; and "To Lhasa in Disguise." The story of the South American expedition will be published in the near future...
...guards at the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, in their eagerness to see the unoccupied royal suite, held sacred to the Mikado and his family or visiting royalty. They had burst the imperial doors off their imperial hinges, sat on imperial chairs, lounged on imperial lounges. They had stormed a Buddhist temple, torn down an image, encountered Tokyo police and engaged in a street brawl. The U. S. consul, irate, had thereafter refused to receive Dean Lough of the Floating Unversity. The disorderly ones were virtually deported. Their names: Duncan MacMartin, Enos Richardson, Wendall C. Goddard of New York; Harry R. Addison...
THIS book will be of great interest, especially to those concerned with the growth of the Fogg Museum, for which Mr. Warner made his expedition into Western China and Turkestan in search of art objects from the early centuries of Buddhist Chinese civilization. But it is as a story of adventure that the book makes its greatest appeal. The narrative romps and blusters with Mr. Warner over the long and often perilous road. Mohammedan bandits, Chinese hospitality of the old school, fiery interviews with stubborn officials, forty-course dinners, thieving innkeepers, Russian refugees, seas of mud and acres of dust...