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Title: Tea, Its Mystery and History

Author: Samuel Phillips Day

Contributor: Lo Fong Loh


Release date: March 31, 2019 [eBook #59170]

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TEA, ITS MYSTERY AND HISTORY ***

LO FONG LOH, C.I.C.S.

SECRETARY TO THE CHINESE EDUCATIONAL MISSION, IN EUROPE.

FAC-SIMILE OF MR. LO FONG LOH’S PREFATORY NOTES IN THE CHINESE HING SHOO, OR RUNNING HAND; FOR TRANSLATION, SEE FOLLOWING PAGES

TEA
ITS MYSTERY AND HISTORY.

TEA
ITS MYSTERY AND HISTORY

BY

SAMUEL PHILLIPS DAY,
Author of “Food Papers: a Popular Treatise on Dietetics,” etc.

WITH A
PREFACE IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH

BY
LO FONG LOH, C.I.C.S.,
Secretary to the Chinese Educational Mission in Europe.

ILLUSTRATED.

“The Sovereign drink of Pleasure and of Health.”
Brady.

LONDON:
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & CO.,
Stationers’ Hall Court.
1878.
Price One Shilling.

TO THE
LOVERS OF PURE TEA,
this Treatise
is respectfully Inscribed
by
The Author.