Messer Marco Polo

Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne was an Irish novelist born in New York in 1889 while his parents were in the United States on business. In 1907 he went to the University of Dublin to study Romance languages where he published his writings in the student magazine. His novels include Blind Raftery and His Wife Hilaria (1924), Brother Saul (1928), Crusade (1928), Field of Honor (1929), or The Power of the Dog, The Foolish Matrons (1920), Hangman's House (1926), and Messr. Marco Polo. This story was first published in 1921. Marco Polo is sent to China to explain the mysteries of Christianity, but his only convert is Kubla Khan's beautiful daughter, Golden Bells, with whom he falls in love.