“Contains too much detailed information regarding the institutions of the city, and not enough about customs, to interest American children, but the history and legend in it will be useful to librarians and teachers.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 81. Mr. ’07. |
“Is in parts entertaining and picturesque, but the general effect is rather scrappy, and some portions are dull.”
| − + | Sat. R. 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 30w. |
“Apart from this question of probability, there is too much savagery in some of these ballads to make them suitable material.”
| − + | Spec. 97: sup. 658. N. 3, ’06. 270w. |
Griffis, William Elliot. Japanese nation in evolution: steps in the progress of a great people. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–29750.
“It is the young Japanese nation tingling with righteous latter-day enthusiasm of which this book treats, and all “figureheads and impersonalities” are entirely eliminated. The rise of the Japanese is traced from prehistoric times, with special emphasis laid upon the author’s notion that the original stock of this people is Aryan, or Ainu, and not Mongolian. To this latter fact he attributes the secret of the nation’s superiority.”