[Illustration: _Copyright, 1901, by J. C. Hemment_ EMPEROR'S THRONE IN THE FORBIDDEN CITY] The notes which I sent to the "Figaro" from China are to be collected in a volume which will be published in Paris before my return, so that it will be impossible for me to look it over. I am therefore a little uneasy as to how such a collection may turn out; it will doubtless contain much repetition. Yet I beg that you will accept this dedication as a token of the profound and affectionate respect of your first aide-de-camp. You will be more indulgent than any one else, because you know under what conditions it was written,--from day to day during a painful campaign in the midst of the continual exci…
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