Taiping capital rest on earlier accounts by R. J. Forrest. The book is readable but not profound.
7. Davis, Sir J. F., Bart. "View of the Great Valley of the Yangtse-Keang before and since its occuption by the Rebels." Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, 1859, pp. 164 ff.
8. John, Rev. Griffith. The Rev. Griffith John's Experience of the Insurgents. Canton, 1861.
This is a pamphlet giving a portion of his letters published in the Friend of China. Some of the matter is reproduced in Sykes, W. H., The Taeping Rebellion in China.
9. John, Rev. Griffith, Biographies of.
(a) The Story of Fifty Years in China. R. Wardlaw Thompson. London, 1906. Popular edition, 1908. Chapter V, pp. 114-156, deals with the Taiping Rebellion.
(b) Griffith John, Founder of the Hankow Mission. William Robson, New York and Chicago. Chapter III, pp. 37-52, on the Rebellion.
(c) The Story of Griffith John, the Apostle of Central China. Nelson Bitton. Chapter IV, pp. 48-56, on the Taipings.
10. The Taipings as They Are. By "One of them." With an Introduction by Rev. J. W. Worthington, D.D., London, 1864.
11. "Lin Li" [Lindley, A. P.]. Ti-ping Tien-kwoh; the History of the Ti-ping Revolution including a Narrative of the Author's Personal Adventures. 2 vols. London, 1866.
The author is sympathetic towards the Taipings, under whom he served. He has collected all the favorable expressions of opinion that he could find. Many such expressions, originally scattered among inaccessible journals, can be read here. There are some evidences of untrustworthiness and a strong pro-Taiping bias is apparent throughout. If he is the same man who seized the Firefly
