Blue Ribbon Books Reprint Edition. Black boards. DJ has some tears and shelf wear but is intact. Here are some fifty sketches and essays and satires, many of them turned out during his years of editing and contributing to Chinese magazines and newpapers, and others written for American periodicals during his stay in the United States. Pearl S. Buck, in her introduction, declares of this volume: "It contains the kind of writing which is perhaps above all others most native to Lin Yutang's genius, and genius unquestionable he is. These writings represent the sparkling, thrusting quality of his thought. They are the instinctive expression of the working of his mind, glancing, darting, penetrating, laughing...."Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.