[*] “There is much entertaining tittle-tattle in the volume about Chinese court life, but Her Majesty is lost in the distant perspective.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ —Dial. 39: 379. D. 1, ‘05. 440w.
*+Ind. 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 100w.

“Unfortunately Miss Carl is not an observer or a writer; she was very greatly affected by the divinity that hedges royalty; and her book of more than 300 pages is much such a record as a school girl with an easy pen might send to an admiring club of friends.”

— +N. Y. Times. 10: 752. N. 4, ‘05. 670w.

[*] “Her book is of great interest.”

+N. Y. Times. 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.

“It is believed that the present volume contains the first accurate and satisfactory information concerning the personal appearance and characteristics of an interesting imperial personage.”

+ +Outlook. 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 190w.
*+R. of Rs. 32: 755. D. ‘05. 140w.

Carling, John R. Weird picture. (†)$1.50. Little.

A story concerned mainly with the machinations of an Italian artist whose madness and villainy actuate him to follow the Giotto method of stabbing his model to produce a realistic picture. There are some weird effects, exciting discoveries, and thru it all runs the romance of a matter-of-fact Englishman and his beautiful cousin.