A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

‘In the tropics one must before everything keep calm.’...He lifted a warning forefinger...‘Du calme, du calme.’

Long a crate-digger's grail and never before available on CD, this is one obscurity that really lives up to the hype.

It is recorded that the Duke of Chou sent his eldest son, Po Ch'in, to take charge of a large fiefdom in the east in what is now the prefecture of Ch'ü-fu in Shantung.