A Manificent Gift of a Great Discovery of Book: Copies of the Bible Tokio, Dec, 1.
It is reported chat Marquis Kokujun Tokugawa nas decided to throw open, to the general students of Christian history in Japan, a large stock of old books and other articles in his possession relating to Christianity in this country during its forbidden period in the Tokugawa era.
These have been handed down from generation to generation' in closed cabinets since the time of the Third Shogun. The present head of the family recently opened them and was surprised to find a rumper of old books and personal effects, all priceless historical treasures to Christian students. Among the books are copies of the Bible written in Japanese kana, representing the original sounds of ad foreign language, while the personal effects include the peculiar religious garments worn by the Japanese Christian believers ai the time of the Amakusa Christian Rebellion. The greater part of these treasures will be contributed to the Museums in Tokio and Mito, the native city of the Marquis.—Reuter, Twa Japanese—Yamano and Okamoto by name—have been arrested in connexion with the exchange shop robbery in Avenue Foch, and a third of the missing $1,000 has been recovered by the Police.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.