6th Aug. Ing Editors of the Kokumin-no-Toma have succeeded in producing n very interesting number of their English edition for July. The frontispiece comprises a couple of very well-executed collotypes of scenes of which the Japanese never get tired, Fusiyama from Hakone, and Ashinoko on the Tonosawa, It is curious that while the description of these pictures mentions the beautiful effect of the reflect tion of Fuji ("Sakasa Fuji" or Fuji topsy-tury) in the waters of Lake Hakone, there is no reflection in this picture. The leading article in this issue is headed "The American Annexation of Hav: e writer begins by calling the development, if not opening, of the Pacific coasts one of the leading features of the present century. He rathers inverts history by describing how the Americans, "aided by the machineries of modern invention, leaped iver the natural barrier of the Rocky mountains, propagated the
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