[1]. Since the date of the commission for my play, the translation of “Turandot” by Jethro Bithell has been published in America by Duffield & Company, New York, so that the Gossi-Schiller-Voellmueller dramatic version of the folk-tale is thus made available for English readers.

[2]. See Appendix.

THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS

GARDEN CITY, N.Y.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

  1. Table of [Contents] added by transcriber.
  2. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  3. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
  4. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter.