With the Empress Dowager of China - Illustrated Edition

The day of my first Audience at the Chinese Court, August 5th, we were up betimes at the American Legation, for it takes full three hours to drive out to the Summer Palace from Peking; and punctuality is the etiquette of Oriental as well as of Occidental potentates. Our audience was for half-past ten o''clock, and the portrait of the Empress Dowager was to be begun at eleven; that hour, as well as...