Yokohama: Kelly & Walsh, Ld., etc., ete. by the Seishi Bunsha at Tokio, and to be This handy guide to Japan, well printed
obtained at Messrs. Kelly & Walsh's store in Shanghai, should be of considerable use to those who are making a flying visit to Japan, It does not attempt to compare, of course, with the new edition of Murray's Guide to' Japan, which is for those who have time to study the country; but for those who have only a week or two this will be found very convenient while the numerous coloured pictures it contains will add to the traveller's interest as he studies the book on the steamer on the way to Japan, and will serve as memorials afterwards—rather sketchy, perhaps,—of what he has seen. It is indeed rather more than a guidebook, for there are a number of routes given, with sufticient information as to the means of travel, hotels, ete., ete. 'There are general hints for travellers in Japan, and 'a collection of questions, phases, and. vocabularies in English and' Japanese," with blank pages for memoranda, and, in a pocket in the cover, an outline map of Japan, showing the railway routes. For the description of sights in Japan the author has drawn at times on Murray's Handbook. Unfortunately, he has drawn on one of the early editions, for we read in the description of the Chiusenji Lake that "no fish live in it." This was once the case, but the lake has been well stocked by the government, until, as Murray tell us in the recently published 3rd edition, "the lake abounds with excellent salmon-trout and other fish." This generally useful little book, which strongly sewn in brown holland, would be more convenient to read if the publishers had confined the advertisement pages to the beginning and end, and not sprinkled them abo the book.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.