"Te Taeasune or Ho." By L. Adams Beck Colt "Gd net Land This is indeed a romance. The sence is laid at that crisis in the history of China when the Boxer movement had driven the Empress from Peking, the advance of allied] European troops had forced her to flee, and European diplomacy brought her back. Joun Mallerdean, 'a Castoms official in Peking, determines: to spend a holiday in North China, and arrives at a lonely Buddhist shrine called. "The Temple of the August Pesce"; there a sion reveals to him that his father had consigned to that temple, as a place of safety, an enormous: treasure; and ina place near a still greater collection of jewels. The history of this treasure is the thread on which the story is strung. The story is fall of exciting incidents which engage and: maintain the reader's attention to the end, and a delightful love fomance runs all through it,
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