J Van Dyke’s Passenger to Peking, 1935

Speaking of J Van Dyke yesterday I though this cover amusing. Van Dyke wrote two reasonably popular but not particularly distinguished novels about shenanigans among foreign men and women in Peking – Peking Madness in 1933 and Passenger to Peking in 1935. Neither are particularly recommended except to the serious student of the old ‘Foreign Colony’, but the photomontage cover is interesting…