SOURCE: Crow, Carl. “An Appreciation of Life.” Saturday Review of Literature 17, no. 5 (27 November 1937): 7.

In the following review, Crow comments how The Importance of Living is a delightful book that details the beauties and joys of simple, homely things which anyone can read with pleasure and profit.

It is appropriate that a book on the importance of living should be written by a Chinese, for no other people have given so much attention to the problem of living, nor, to my mind, have solved the problem so satisfactorily. In the midst of a struggle for existence they have managed not only to sustain life but to make that life beautiful, interesting, and full of simple happiness. They have learned to make the best of things, to find equal gusto in a bowl of noodles, a pot of hot rice wine, a poem, or a sunrise. They are not content...