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Primitive and Mediaeval Japanese Texts. Transliterated into Roman, with Introduction,

Notes, and Glossaries, by Frederick Victor Dickins. With a Volume of Translations. (Clarendon Press. 12s. 6d. net per vol., or 21s. net for the two.)-The intro- duction supplies a "Short Grammar of Old Japanese," with remarks on "Language" and "Script." The earliest text is part of an eighth-century anthology ; the next is a tenth-century romance. Mr. Dickins points out that the literary productions given in these volumes are Japanese proper, not Chino-Japanese.