WHEN WE WERE
STROLLING PLAYERS IN THE EAST
MRS. MILN AS DESDEMONA. Frontispiece.
WHEN WE WERE
STROLLING PLAYERS
IN THE EAST
BY
LOUISE JORDAN MILN
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK:
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
153-157 FIFTH AVENUE
1896
TO MY FATHER
WHOSE LOVE NEVER FAILED ME
AND WHO NEVER MISUNDERSTOOD ME
I dedicate this Volume
In connection with this volume I have several words of thanks to write.
My first and best thanks are due to the editors of the Pall Mall Gazette and of the Pall Mall Budget. Their kindness has enabled me to reprint here several articles that have previously appeared in one or both of their papers. And to the generosity of the editor of the Pall Mall Budget I owe five of the illustrations appearing here.
“Oriental Nuptials” have appeared in The Lady, the editor of which paper kindly allows me to here use them.
Messrs. Bourne and Shepherd of Calcutta have generously granted me permission to reproduce three of their copyrighted photographs.
Messrs. Skeen of Colombo have kindly permitted me to use two of their copyrighted views of Ceylon.
Several of the Burmese photographs have been collected for me in Burmah, and sent me by William Miller, Esq., of Rangoon. I am peculiarly obliged to Mr. Miller, because he found time in the press of grave official duties to take so much trouble for one who had not then the pleasure of his acquaintance.
L. J. M.
London, 31st May 1894.