A collection of papers written by many of the high officials of the Japanese government, and native men of well-known literary ability, including Sannomiya, Ito, Inouyé, Oyami, Ariga, Saito, Shibusawa, Naruse, Nitobe, Hozumi, and many others. Among the subjects treated are the army, navy, finance, schools, religion, commerce, politics, art and literature of Japan. There is a preface by the editor and a carefully prepared index.
“It is about as useful as an almanac and not half as good as a dictionary. A desk-book of facts and figures concerning political and economic Japan. Quite unique as a gazetteer.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.
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“His profound ignorance of the real significance of the work of such men as Sir Ernest Satow, Mr. William G. Aston, Prof. Basil Hall Chamberlain, and Capt. Frank Brinkley is manifest. The bad proofreading and continual misspelling of Japanese names and terms are disgraceful. In its cast and scope, the book seems intended mainly for the British reader. The facts and figures concerning the army, navy, revenue, taxation, and things outward and material are invaluable in their way. In treating of art and literature, the writers correct some errors of foreign writers, but contribute little that is fresh or revealing.”
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Stearns, Frank Preston. [Cambridge sketches.] [**]$1.50. Lippincott.
“Brief biographical sketches of impressive personalities, in the literary, artistic, scientific, and political life of New England.... Agassiz, Lowell, Holmes, Sumner, Andrew, Cranch, Bird, and Howe are but a few of those of whom he writes.... His little volume also includes Emerson’s eulogy of Major George L. Stearns, printed in the Boston ‘Commonwealth’ April 20, 1867.... Sketches of the Harvard of forty and fifty years ago; papers read at various literary centennial celebrations, and notes of life in Rome in the late sixties.”—Outlook.
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“Contains many true things that are not new and doubtless do not aim at novelty, and also some new things that are not true, however unintentional their falsity. Its chapter on George L. Stevens, the author’s father, is its only noteworthy contribution to biography.”
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