JAPAN

The Country and the People

NEW YORK . . THE GROLIER SOCIETY

LONDON . THE EDUCATIONAL BOOK CO.

EDITORIAL AND CONTRIBUTING STAFF

OF

THE BOOK OF HISTORY

Rt. Hon. Viscount Bryce, F.R.S.
Formerly British Ambassador to the United States, Author of “The American Commonwealth”

Professor E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S.
President British Association, 1906–7; Past Director of South Kensington Museum of Natural History

Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, F.R.S.
Co-discoverer with Darwin of the Theory of Natural Selection; Author of “Man’s Place in the Universe”