Note 88 — XVII THE DIARY OF HIS EXCELLENCY CHING SHAN
Reading edition
How well and successfully she did it, has been told in Miss Catherine A. Carl’s book, With the Empress Dowager of China. The painting of her portrait for the St. Louis exhibition was in itself an example of Tzŭ Hsi’s “cardinal virtues of government,” which she practised with conspicuous success on the simple-minded wife of the American Minister, Mrs. Conger. (Vide Cordier, Relations de la Chine, Vol. III., p. 423.)