Asia.- Putnam Weale (B.L.) The Re-Shaping of the Far East, 2 vol., some pp. unopened, 1905; The Truce in the East and Its Aftermath, 1907; The Coming Struggle in Eastern Asia, 1908; An Indiscreet Chronicle from the Pacific, reprint, 1923; Why China Saw Red, 1926; The Vanished Empire, 1926, all but one first editions, some from the library of Peter Hopkirk with his book-label, light toning or occasional foxing, original cloth, lightly sunned to spines, light rubbing to extremities, 8vo (7) *** Bertram Lenox Simpson (1877–1930) was a British author who wrote about China under the pen name "B. L. Putnam Weale" (or sometimes simply "Putnam Weale"). Lenox Simpson was the son of Clare Lenox-Simpson, who had been in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service since 1861.