A Vindication of the Decorated Pottery of Japan - Couverture souple

Bowes, James L

 
9781241069162: A Vindication of the Decorated Pottery of Japan

Synopsis

This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the subject. From analyses of the varied geography that encompasses the Asian continent to significant time periods spanning centuries, the book was made in an effort to preserve the work of previous generations.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Japanese Pottery, which appeared in the New York Nation and the Evening Post, has called forth three, or more perhaps, for aught I know, lengthy letters from Professor MORSE on the same subject. My reply to the original article was refused admission into the columns of the journals named, although the work had not been sent to either of them for review, English literary journals decline, for obvious reasons, to admit notices, by anonymous writers, of works which have not been sent to them for review, but the custom in America appears to differ in this, as well as in another respect; for in this country, the conductors willingly allow an author to reply to such an attack as that to which I refer, especially when it is couched in language so temperate as that employed by me, in answer to an article which carried its own condemnation in its tone, The Nation, however, whilst excluding my letter, readily and politely enough accepted a series of paid advertisementsgiving the opinions expressed about my work by English journals, and, for a sufficient consideration, afforded them a prominent position. The editor of the Evening Post also refused insertion of the reply, and I venture to refer him for his future guidance to the words which Mr.
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