Twilight in the Forbidden City

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By Reginald F. Johnston

Appleton, 1934, 485 pp

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The author, who was tutor to the boy Emperor, gives a fascinating account of the checkered history of China since 1898 as seen from the palace. The story is continued to the time of the Emperor's ascension of the Manchukuoan throne.

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