The House of Exile

Possessors of ancient wealth, cultivators of the land, patrons of the arts, the Lin family preserve within thei, courts the immortal beauty of China's past. Nora Walr became their adopted daughter-the first foreigner who had ever entered their gates.

Miss Waln writes with brilliant accuracy of the feast days and the food, the ancestor worship and the pageants, the elements and amenities of Chinese life. Later she tells of her romantic marriage to an English official stationed in China and of her hazardous life during the days of hatred and revolution. Her knowledge of the Chinese language, her undisturbed relations with the Lin family, give her story of China Old and New an extraordinary quality of vividness and sympathy.