Naturally to people in China his experiences in this country will be of the most ready appeal, and his portrayal of the atmosphere of Peking' in the days of the Diplomatic Body strikes the reader acquainted with those times og being remarkably: felicitous. Some of his tales he tells with a delicious malice, which does no one any harm, but quite the best fg the following: nolty "little Chinese any.
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