BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY ELIZABETH KENDALL
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published February 1913
TO
THE HAPPY MEMORY OF MY MOTHER
THE ONE WHO
ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD
PREFACE
A word of explanation may help to an understanding of this record of a brief journey in China, in 1911, in the last quiet months before the revolution.