In this connection, it may be remarked that an interesting light has been thrown upon the preferences of Japanese readers of foreign literature, owing to the efforts of a firm of booksellers which lately made investigations in connection with the literary tastes of the leading Japanese business men, scientists, litterateurs, ete. In this way it was found that the most popular work is Darwin's "Origin of Species," next comes Goethe's ' Faust," then the Encyclopedia Britannica," and Hugo's "Les Miserables." Among English men of letters Byron and Tennyson. are the most popular, but the names of R. L. Stevenson, T. Hardy, G. Meredith, Marie Twain," and other recent writers ara rarely met with, while that of Kipling occurs not even once. Among the Continental writers, Tolstoi, Schopenhauer, Heina, end Zola are frequently mentioned, and Nietasche's "Zarathustra" is spoken of more than once as the greatest work im the last decade ofthe 19thcentury. Mr. I. Tozutomi, of the '*Kokumin Shimbun," enumerates his favourite authors ins follows: Darwin. Spencer, Ruskin, Schopenhauer, Tolstoi, Goethe, Hugo, Mrs. Stowe, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Emerson, Carlyle, Muthew Arnold, J..8. Mill, Froude, Brederict Parison, J. Morley, and Goltiwin Smith. Me says that he likes the "Times," rator," and the "Fortnightly Review." Mfr. K. Takahashi, Vice-Governor of the Bank of Japan, mentions Darwin, Tennyson, the Encyclopadia Britannica, J. S. Mill, "Bismarck, the Man and the Statesnran"
graphy), M. Busch's Bismareic Secret Pages of His History," and Seignobas' "Political History of Burope since 1814."
Obituary.
The elder generation of Yukohamnites is fast passing away. On Wednesday, the Sth, Mr. J. H. Brooke, the proprietor of the "Japan Herald," died in Yokohame of complication of disorders, which his great ago made it hopeless for him to combat. Mr. Brooke came to Yokohama from Australia, where he represented Geelong in the Legislative Assembly. thrice in eight years, aad where he was. once called upon tv form an Administration which held office to the end. of 1861. For a long number of years. his paper was the organ of the anti-Jupanuse section of the foreiynurs—section which. might be said to include at one time.nearly every foreigner wi did not hold a post under the Japanese Government—but latterly, on the success: of the Japanese in obtaining treaty revision and on the approachof old age with its attendant infirmities, Mx. Brooke quite lost his old vigour, and the editorship of the paper fell entirely to a younger man.
Mr Brooke's great opponent was, as you: are aware, Captaiz Brinkley. of the "Dail ziail," who all along championed the cause of the Japanese.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.