Things vs Sketches

The publishing industry ventured little to publish similar titles below like, Things and Sketches series on exotic subjects to cultivate Anglophone readers at home and abroad.

Things Asian: Chinese, Indian, Japanese and Korean

1. James Dyer Ball, Things Chinese or Notes Connected with China (Hongkong: Kelly & Walsh, 1888. 4th ed., rev. & enl., 1903, New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1904. 5th ed., revised by Edward Theodore Chalmers Werner, 1925, London: John Murray, 1926).
2. Sun Yat Sen and James Cantlie, a lecture “Things Chinese” illustrated by lantern slides and Chinese curios, on 11 Mar 1897, at St Martin's Town Hall, for the Charing Cross Hospital Special Appeal Fund. There is also a chapter entitled "Things Chinese" in Cantlie's Sun Yat Sen and the Awakening of China (London : Jarrold & Sons, 1912).
3. WIlliam Crooke, Things Indian: Being Discursive Notes on Various Subjects Connected with India (London: John Murray, 1906).
4. Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese, Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan, for the use of travellers and others (London: Kegan Paul, 1890. 2nd ed., rev. and enl., London: Kegan Paul; Yokohama: Kelly & Walsh, 1891. 3rd ed., rev., London: John Murray; Yokohama: Kelly & Walsh, 1898. 4th ed., rev. and enl., London: John Murray; Yokohama: Kelly & Walsh, 1902. 5th ed., rev., London: John Murray; Yokohama: Kelly & Walsh, 1905. Reprint of the 5th ed., rev. with the addiction of two appendsice, London: Kegan Paul; Kobe: J. L. Thompson, 1927. 6th ed., rev., London: Kegan Paul; Kobe: J. L. Thompson, 1940). btw, J. L. Thompson, famous chemists in Kobe, was K & W's agent in Kobe. 
5. Horace Newton Allen, Things Korean: A Collection of Sketches and Anecdotes, Missionary and Diplomatic (New York: Revell, 1908).

Sketches exotic: Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Malay

1. John Treat Irving, Indian sketches taken during a U. S. expedition to make treaties with the Pawnee and other tribes of Indians in 1833 (Philadelphia, 1858).
2. Herbert Allen Giles, Chinese sketches (London: Trübner, 1876).
3. A. Herbage Edwards, Kakemono: Japanese sketches (London: W. Heinemann; Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1906).
4. James S. Gale, Korean sketches (New York: Revell, 1898).
5. Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham, Malay sketches (London: John Lane, 1895).
6. Far-Eastern sketches (Shanghai: Shanghai Mercury, 1906).

to be continued...