This revised and enlarged edition of Professor Basil Hall Chamberlain's great work will be welcomed by all who intend visiting Japan, or who wish to acquire a correct and useful knowledge of Japan, its institutions, religion, administration, defences, social customs, literature, archaeology and history, language, and ing to ancient and modern Japan of which th= author does not give some concise and authoritative explanation, and the book is not only affords interesting reading in itself which entitles it to a place in every well-selected library, but it is indispensable for those visiting the country who wish to acquire an intelligent comprehension of the people, their government, and customs.
November 1911, and the author therein The preface to this +h edition is datot
expresses himself as follows "Tu the unlikely event of any one instituting n minute comparison betaveen this edition and its predeces sor, he would tivd minor alterations imiumerable,—here raised, there a paragraph added, or a figure changed, a statement quali-option or a list brought up to se re of completely new auricles ins-red. But take it altogether, the book remains the same ay heretofore. Ik would seem to have found favour in many quarters, to judge from the manner in which, yours" after its first appearance, newspapers and book-makers continue to quote wholesale from it without _acknowledgment; and the title, which it cost us much cogitation to devise, and which we borrowed ultimately from the Spanish Expaiat, has passed into coming ty supply titles imilar works written about other one.
We can sympathise with Prof. Chamberlain's complaint that the information he cotefully compiled is taken freely by other writers on Japan without any acknowledgment. But Chamberlain's is the text book on such absolutely the only rel yy it can only be presumed that plagiarists imagine that everyone will recognise the source of their information, just' as a well-known quotation from. Shakespore is used as a household word. Bat whether this 9 riy consolation to Prof. Chamberlain is open to question.
This indispensable book is furnished with excellently neat and clear map of Japan divided into provinces, with an index, much needed, giving the alternative names of these provinees.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.