Mr, Ohashi perhaps speaks from expe-nonce. It is more than likely; and if the surmise is well-founded it accounts for much that is otherwise unaccountable—unless, indeed, one is to put this great head of n great publishing company down for an—but it would be cruel to anticipate judynent. From publications, daily or otherwise, to publishing companies' is a very natural step, and in speaking of the great publishing corporations Mr. Ohashi may be assumed, I suppose, to be on his own ground, so to speak. He was disappointed in the size of the English and American publishing-houses. Regarded from the point of view of publications—the variety of works pubblished—he found none greater than his own establishment, the Hakubun Kwan, which may therefore be called
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