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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIII, Issue XXIV, 10 December 1904, Page 21

The Railway Department, as will be seen from an announcement in this issue, is making special provision for the holiday tourist traffic by running an extra express train between Auckland and Rotorua from December 21 to January 10. Mr Max Pemberton’s readers will be interested to learn, on the authority of the “Bookman,” that some of the documents on which Mr Max Pemberton founded his very striking romance, “Beatrice of Venice.,” were discovered by him in a dusty old box in the shop of Mr Edwards in Marylebone-road, London. Having searched all London for an exact account of the correspondence between Napoleon and the Venetian Senate, Mr Max Pcmlierton discovered it in a pamphlet published in 1804. lying in an old packing ease over which lie stumbled when looking at Mr Edwards’s shelves. Air Pemberton declares this was the most remarkable experience he has over had, for he just stooped down to see what the top book was, mid, 10, it was the complete (recount of Napoleon’s dealings with Venice.