In these letters I have drawn quite freely and sometimes literally from the excellent and authoritative translations of Chinese classics by Professor Giles in his Chinese Literature and from The Lute of Jude and The Mastersingers of Japan, two books in the Wisdom of the East series edited by L. Cranmer-Byng and S. A. Kapadia. These translators have loved the songs of the ancient poets of China and Japan and caught with sympathetic appreciation, in their translations, the spirit of the East. -- Elizabeth Cooper