![]() ![]() after reading for a while, being told to turn to page one hundred and something. Magazine readers do not like starting a story and. The fact is that if you are a storyteller any curious person you meet has a way of suggesting a story, and incidents that to others will seem quite haphazard have a way of presenting themselves to you with the pattern your natural instinct has impressed on them. I have included two of them, “The Taipan” and “The Consul,” in this volume. Kay Long chanced to read this and it occurred to him that some of my notes might well be taken for short stories. So I changed my mind and decided to publish them as they stood under the title: On a Chinese Screen. When I was in China in 1920 I took notes of whatever I saw that excited my interest, with the intention of making a connected narrative out of them but when I came home and read them it seemed to me that they had a vividness which I might easily lose if I tried to elaborate them. To the first lot I gave the title of Cosmopolitans, because they were offered to the public in the Cosmopolitan Magazine, and except for Ray Long, who was then its editor, would never have been written. They appeared in magazines and were afterwards issued in book form. Some were written many years ago, others more recently. Most of the stories which I have now gathered together are very much shorter. ![]() The tales in that collection were of about the same length and written on the same scale and so it seemed convenient to publish them together in a single volume. THIS BOOK contains all the stories I have written that are not included in East and West. ![]()
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