My Japanese - Year. By T. H. Sanders. (Mills and , Boon.
10s. 6d. riet.)-If we can judge- by a naïf and occasionally facetious style,' ,the publishers. of this series of "• Yearn " in various countries have not chosen an experienced maker of books to deiciibe japan. But they have done well in not committing it to a globe-trotter who has spent- a short' time in the Europeanized or Americanized quarters of Tokio. The author has an educational aPpointlient Under the Government tin the provincial town of Yamaguchi, whero the foreigners perhaps consist of himself and an 'American mission- station. The result is that he has an intimate acquaintance with men, women, and children who have been comparatively little' influenced by modern changes. He finds them still illustrating the old Japanese characteristics ; they " are at once wailiko and dainty, bravo and gentle." His colleagues and neighbours received. him into their houses without any attempt to alter their own ways, which he describes in detail, and his accounts of his pupils are most interesting. The book is illsistrated with good photographs.
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