sapnese Jingles. Mae St. John Tokio, Japan. Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Brambal Published T. Hi wa, Lad,, 1891.
Surely: this collection of pictures.and verses, printed in colours. on Japanese crape paper, bound é la Japonaise with tungs, and containing 64 pages, is the lat little book of its kind that has ever issued from the enter pri Of the capital of Japan. 'To read and in an arm-chair by the fire, or a long chair in the verandah, or to carry in the pocket, this: little book' is as handy as a book can, be, soft and comfortable, while no companivu could be more delightful up-country, lies on the leeward side of a grave.
the after tifin cigar, or on one's bunk in the boat after-dinner. It is difiicult' generally to find any ori finality in Tipanese chawings, and a skilful analyst could draw up a ruble ut the elements' by the combination of which Japanese. pictures are made, and it would not be a very large one.. Often as these elements recur, the Western eye rarely tires of them in composition, and in the little book before us the compositions are admirable, and the colouring uncommonly bright without being luring; while the partial tinting of the Pages hus: n delicious effect.
he authoress—we presume we ure right in supposing that it is to Mrs. Bramhall, that "we owe this little treasure—has collected het verses from the Japan Gazette, and they are worth preservitig. Some are ions from the Japanese, ud sy admirably have gove hand in hand, that i to say from outside which inspired which, Here 1s a specimen; we need not give longer one, for every one who loves poetry and pictures, and all that " delicate taste gan do iv getting up a bork, will buy these
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.