APPENDICES
[I.] Political Organism of Japan.
[II.] Japanese Education.
[III.] Anglo-French Diplomacy in Japan Forty Years ago.
[IV.] Sketches of some chief Figures of Actual Japan (Ito, Yamagata, Inouyé, Matsukata, Katsura, Okuma, Saionji).
[V.] An old Speech by Marquis Ito.
[VI.] The Commercial Morality of the Japanese.
[VII.] Japan and Foreign Capital.
[VIII.] The Languages of China and Japan.
[IX.] Once more on Japan and France.
[X.] Japan and Europe.
[XI.] The Indo-China Question.
[XII.] The Australian Question.
[XIII.] The Anglo-Japanese Alliance and America.
[Notes to Dialogues V. and VIII.], and to the [Paper on 'Commercial Morality].'
A FANTASY OF FAR JAPAN:
SUMMER DREAM DIALOGUES
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The issue of the war—Some Forecasts—English and French papers—Political situation in the summer of 1905—Beaconsfield—Japanese fictions and their plots—Some similarities between the customs of Greece, Rome, and Japan—Love stories—A Japanese love tale—Custom of adoption—Jane Eyre and Japan—Japanese art—Japanese gardening—Full description of marriage ceremonies—Preliminary inquiries—Description of the rooms, and decorations—Butterflies—The banquet—Wedding presents—Position of the women in Japan—Japanese mothers and wives—A Samurai mother illustrated by a drama—Lays of Ancient Rome and Commandant Hirosé—Japanese notions of pardon and forgiving—Trip to Japan
It was a cool summer afternoon in a quiet hotel in a quiet part of Paris. I threw myself lazily into an easy-chair on the balcony and began reading Le Journal. I was somewhat tired and soon felt myself drowsily wandering into dreamland as the breeze lulled me soothingly. I felt myself, as it were, wafted through the air. Soon I found myself in the company of a friend of mine and his wife, though I do not know how all that came about. We passed together through the Bois de Boulogne, now amidst tall, green forests, now along the turfy shores of mirror-like lakes. We arrived at last before the entrance of a large house. It was the residence of the Duke of Fairfield. His wife, the Duchess of Fairfield, is a star in Parisian society and a great hostess. Her salon is periodically filled with politicians, savants, great artists, and the most fashionable ladies and belles of the day. Her forte is politics, and indeed she is no mean politician in her way. It was in that lady's drawing-room that we in no time found ourselves.