Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1928. — 416 pp.
"This volume should be called "Outlines of Chinese Mythology". It lays no claim to consideration as being an exhaustive study of Chinese mythology, which would require many volumes. It has been possible to condense the essential facts into this small space by an exclusion of all myths which have any suspicion of a foreign origin and by avoiding all comparisons between those of China and those of other countries. Only such traditional stories have been examined as are concerned with the powers of nature, the origin of created things, or the growth of governmental institutions and popular customs among the Chinese people".
"The purpose of this book is not to tell amusing stories for the entertainment of the curious so much as to give to the serious reader a general view of the nature and the variety of Japanese myths and folk-tales. Therefore the stories are told as concisely as possible, and care is always taken to point out the connections, conceptual or historical, that exist between different stories. Many books have been written on the mythology and folklore of the Japanese, but they are usually limited to a particular branch of the subject or else they aim merely to entertain. The present book may perhaps claim to be a more or less systematic treatise on the whole subject. That fact, the author hopes, may to a certain degree compensate the reader who finds the book disappointingly unamusing".
