We have received from the Miten Bishi complete hand-book, giving the history of the Company from its foundation by the late Mr. Yataro Iwasaki in the early years of the present era until the end of the year 1910. The book, is Imperial octavo, handsomely and fally beand in cloth, with gold ded letters, and is well-printed on art paper. In addition to matter descriptive of the Mining, Shipbuilding and Engineering, Banking, Paper-making and Estate Departments, as well as of the collieri and mines, of the Company, the volume is illustrated by several excellent balftone plates and two neatly designed maps of the Company's dockyards and engineering works at Kobe and Nagasaki. As stated in the'preface, the Miten Bishi Goshi-Kwaishs is one of the biggest private concerns in Japan, havi registered nominal capital of 18,000,004 vested in various important fields of industry and commerce. It is the proprietor of several mines, shipyardy and workshops, and is represented at various centres of business at home and abroad, giving employment i to about 40,000 men.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.