A treasure-house of the rarest documents vin the world dealing "withthe Fay Bast, the Oriental Library, the gift of Baron Hisaya Jwasnki, and founded upon the collection of Dr. George Ernest Mor-risen, formerly advisor tothe President of the Chinese Republic, yeeently was opened formally with ceremony at the new building of the library in Hongo, Tokyo. A Jarge throng of foreigners and Japanese visited the library on its Inaugural day.
The Toyo Bunko, asthe 0 Library is called in Japan; begun in October, 1922, under the supervision of Dr. Sakurai, and completed only recently, when the Sforrison collection, purchased by Baron Iwasaki, was brought to Tokyo from Peking. A two-storey fixe-proof building, with its exterior Deautifully finished in brown Brick, will house the treasures which a expected to be the objective of Students of the Orient from the world The library is so furished indoors that the rooms are alivays kept dry to prevent the rare} volumes from deteriorating in the humid climate of Tokyo.
The Morrison library, the crystallization of 20 yi by the original collector; consists of some 35,000 volumes, mostly treating with the Orient, to which have been added many valuable works collected from the markets of the warld under the supervision of Dr, Shiratori and ata total expense to Baron Iwasaki of Y. 1,500, 000, including the cost for the' present building.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.