'A book full of beautiful things, with an admirable foreword.' -The Daily Mail'...he accommodates the deep with the trivial; he delicately, coolly enchants...' -The New Statesman

• Chapter 1 From the Book of Songs; Chapter 2 The Great Summons; Chapter 3 Poverty; Chapter 4 Seventeen Old Poems; Chapter 5 The Bones of Chuang Tzu2The great Taoist philosopher; see my Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China, 1939.; Chapter 6 The Little Cart;