The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

A NATIVE of South China, in his early forties, Dr. Lin Yutang now makes his home in America. Following his education in the Christian schools of China, he married, and thereafter he and his wife enjoyed years of study at Harvard, Jena, and Leipzig. Pearl Buck has called his books ‘the quintessence of the Chinese philosophy of life, distilled through Lin Yutang.’