THE CLASSICAL POETRY OF THE JAPANESE.
By Basil Hall Chamberlain, Author of "Yeigo Heñkaku Shirañ."
"A very curious volume. The author has manifestly devoted much labour to the task of studying the poetical literature of the Japanese, and rendering characteristic specimens into English verse."—Daily News.
"Mr. Chamberlain's volume is, so far as we are aware, the first attempt which has been made to interpret the literature of the Japanese to the Western world. It is to the classical poetry of Old Japan that we must turn for indigenous Japanese thought, and in the volume before us we have a selection from that poetry rendered into graceful English verse."—Tablet.
"It is undoubtedly one of the best translations of lyric literature which has appeared during the close of the last year."—Celestial Empire.
"Mr. Chamberlain set himself a difficult task when he undertook to reproduce Japanese poetry in an English form. But he has evidently laboured con amore, and his efforts are successful to a degree."—London and China Express.
Post 8vo, pp. xii.-164, cloth, price 10s. 6d.