A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 187: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

EERIE TALES OF “CHINATOWN.” mts Of... Broken China By WILLIAM E. S. FALES A collection of captivating novelettes deal- ing with life in New York’s ‘‘Chinatown.”’ The struggles and ambitions of the China- man in America, his loves and jealousies, his hopes and fears, his sorrows, his joys, these are the materials on which Mr. Fales has built his book It is a mew field, and all the more inter- esting on that account. The author has made a life study of his subject ; and no one is better qualified than he to present a picture of this romantic corner of New York where lives the exiled Chinaman “Bits of Broken China’’ is vieidoubacly one of the most delightful volumes for lighter reading published this season Bound in cloth. Gold. top. Fully Illustrated Price, 75 Cents. STREET AND SMITH, Wew York and London CORnNICLOO @ 6S (C(O)