Japan papers print an_interesting note from the Kokusai Agency, relative to the late Dr. G. E. Morrison's library, which was acquired some three years ago by the head of the Iwasaki family, who has since added some 10,000 volumes to it. Kokusai says that the Japanese family propose to establish an Oriental Investigation Office with a view to the completion" of the library, Presumably this means keeping it up to date for the library was complete, from the standpoint of Dr. Morrison's aim, which was to collect all the books in foreign languages relating to China, even articles in periodicals being included, also such books as the second' part of Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe," which deals at some length with China and has arenged speculations as to where Defoe obtained his materials. Among works recently added by the Iwasakis are "The Gospel as Preached in Japan," the "Essence of Christianity," and the "Guide to the Evangelical Movement Japan." Presumably the two last-named books are modern works and seem scarcely to require mention save as showing that the library is to be extended by comprising books in foreign languages relating to Japan as well as those relating to China, says the "Japan Chronicle." The "Gospel as Preached in Japan" is described as the work of a Spanish Christian missionary, prepared in Japanese with roman letters, and published some 350 years ago in Amakusa in Kyushu. "Tt is believed," says Kokusai, "that this-is the only copy extent zn the world now, as the work was suppressed and its further publication forbidden by the Tokugawa Shogunate.""
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