Excerpt from Manchu and Muscovite That there is a serious need for a book on things Manchurian brought down to the very last moment of the great Far Eastern crisis, no one will doubt. The extraordinary ignorance in Europe about the actual conditions existing in the disputed territory, the very childishness of the statements made far and wide, have prompted me to suppose that a candid and unvarnished account by one who has at least known his Far East since his first days will do something to dispel this curious mystery surround ing the Muscovite in the Manchu's home. 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.