“In all this bright rush of recollection and easily voluble femininity one is always conscious of the writer. The tone is as conversational as a dinner talk—and, one is tempted to say at times as perceptibly elevated.”
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“While there is nothing of vital importance recorded, the incidents are vivaciously related, and the spirit of the writer shows pleasantly.”
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“Full of human interest, human pathos, and dramatic intensity.”
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Morris, J. Makers of Japan. *$3. McClurg.
“To supply history through the medium of biography,” has been the author’s aim in preparing this volume, “to convey a general impression of Japan and her people: the workings of reform, as exemplified in the lives of some of her patriots.” Consequently the twenty-two chapters are each devoted to one of the makers of Japan. The part which His Majesty the Emperor, The last of the Shoguns, Marquis Ito, Enomoto, Okuma, Oyama, Togo and all the others played in the introduction of reforms is given in detail and “the situation in Japan now that those measures for which they were responsible may be said to have taken full effect” is discussed. There are 24 illustrations from photographs.
“His work is admirably successful: it is careful without being laboured, and learned without being dull.”