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Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Note 47 — LXX. THE PRINCESS LILY.

Herbert Allen Giles translation

The language in which this fanciful document is couched is precisely such as would be used by an officer of the Government in announcing some national calamity; hence the value of these tales,—models as they are of the purest possible style. return to text

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