Excerpt from A Maker of the New Orient: Samuel Robbins Brown, Pioneer Educator in China, America, and Japan, the Story of His Life and Work In its preparation I have had Dr. Brown's letters to his parents and friends and to the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America, notebooks and journals, besides assistance from so many friends, Chinese, Japanese, American, and British, that I trust that they will pardon me for not mentioning their names and receive this general acknowledgment of thanks, which I make most gratefully and heartily. Four years of close personal acquaint ance in Japan, while I was engaged in the edu cational service of the Mikado's government, and nearly eighteen of fellowship in the Reformed Church in America, besides visitations to most of the places he dwelt in, have enabled me to give to the background some firmness of touch and warmth of coloring, I trust, while allowing the chief actor to speak for himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.