Both our enterprising contemporat at Kobe have begun the publication of serial histories of the war. The first number of that issued by the Kobe Herald," a closely-printed pamphlet of 33 pages, justifies the Editor's claim in his introductory note that it is an honest and impartial account of the can of the war, going back to the Boxer rising in China in 1900 and including a reprint of the Japanese white-book, and of the operations on land and sea up to the end of March. The record, which will be found very interesting to the contemporary reader and invaluable to the future historian, is very fully illustrated. The cover presents a photograph of the Japanese ironclad Asama; there are plans of the battle of Chemulpo, and the first attack on Port Arthur, and a map of North-west Corea, and a large number of photographs of scenes in connection with the sinking of the Varyag and Koréetz. The Diary of the War is carefully compiled and the comprehensive record that follows is ably written, and will make this "War Supplement," as it is modestly termed, a most valuable work of reference if it is continued on the scale of this first number. There is a note on the Treaty of Alliance between Japan and Corea, from the "Corea Review," and a complete list of the warships of the two combatants. The number costs sen. first number of the "Diary of the Russo-Japanese War" issued by the "Kobe Chronicle," in a handsome pamphlet of 24 pages, opens with an of the events that led up to after which "it is really diary, from the 4th of February to the 16th of the same month reprinted from our contemporary's daily issues. The operations during that period are very completely covered, and the result is the presentation of a mass of useful and interesting material for a history. A map of Corea on a small scale is given on the cover, there is a plan of the harbour of Port Arthur, and there are portraits of the Emperors of Russia and Japan, bird's-eye views of Port Arthur and Viadivostock, and excellent photographs of the wrecks of the Sungari and Varyag in Chemulpo harbour. Alto-ether, it is a very commendable and valuable production. The price is 60 cents.
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