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ditions of the educational market. There is The understanding is that the instructors above-named were retired from the Law no demand for this article among the stu dents. They have put off the old Japan, and School staff purely because of lack of funds. are as yet so fond of the new garments of Under such pressure the instruction in old Western science that there is a positive con Japanese law must for the present be the tempt for the ideas and customs of the past first to suffer, since it serves the wants of generation. Sensitive enough on points of a minimum number of students. But the national honor in international relations, they spirit of nationality will some day bring have not yet learned to value the inheritance about a reaction, and that which is native

will come back once of their past, and they more into favor. cannot be persuaded to take up its study. II. The students of a Some knowledge of certain instructor of elementary law is my acquaintance are gained in the ordinary aware of his interest academical depart in their customary law; ment of many of the but not only do they colleges of Japan, not withstand all efforts to through a special engage their own sym course of instruction, pathies in it; they look but from text-books upon him with the pity (usually Mr. Terry's which they would feel "Elements of Law ") for one who had a fond read in an English-lan ness for collecting guage class. But there broken bricks or old are in Tokyo a number iron. This feeling will of special schools of some day pass away; law and political sci but while it lasts the ence, and it is here that condition of things the only systematic cannot be called a instruction is given. healthy one. The TERAO TORU. Before taking up the legal conceptions of a (Professor in the Imperial University ) separate institutions, whole people cannot some explanation is be changed in a gene ration, especially where they lie in custom necessary of the general system of secondary rather than in legislation. To send a young instruction. The near future may see radi graduate into the world of practice with no cal changes, but at present each of the fortyknowledge whatever of the prevailing notions odd provinces has a so-called Government of rights and duties, is to fail in the purpose Middle School, corresponding to our High of education. Even if one concedes that the School, but somewhat lower in rank. The new Codes are in every way desirable and the course here is five years. Next in rank (but old customs are m every way to be opposed requiring a special intermediate preparation and annihilated, it is still the part of pru for graduates of the Middle Schools) is the dence to give the student some idea of what Higher Middle School, which would roughly notions he is to meet with among his clients. correspond to our ordinary college, though But the present is a time of retrenchment in again of not so high a rank as our best. expenses, especially in Government schools. After this follows the University, consisting