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private law are common to both classes. The Law Department proper is again divided into two sections : in one the Jap anese language only is used; in the other and more advanced, English text-books are used, and a few foreign lecturers are em ployed.

The courses are arranged as follows : —FIRST YEAR. Elementary Law. — Civil Code (Property) — Contracts (English Law) — Civil Proced ure CoJe — Criminal Code — Logic — Torts (English Law,) — Civil Code (Persons). SECOND YEAR. Civil Code (Acquisition of Property, Proof) — Commercial Code — Criminal Procedure Code — Moot Courts. THIRD YKAR.

General of the Empire, and S. Ito, a judge of the Superior Court of Tokyo. English law is represented by Mr. G. Hirata, a barrister. The Political Science Department has re cently been re-organized by Dr. T. lyenaga, a graduate of Oberlin College and of Johns Hopkins University. In the Law Depart ment none of the instructors are resident, or give their whole time to the institution. The annual fee is fif teen yen, with an en trance fee of one yen. The number of law students this year is about 180, and the graduates of last July numbered about 75. Entrance is obtained either upon showing certificates of grad uation from a Mid dle or Normal School, or a higher Gov ernment School, or from certain Special Schools, or upon pass ing an examination in Japanese Compo sition and in Chinese. The larger number of the graduates find their way either into MASUJIMA ROKUICHIRO. active practice or into (Formerly President of flie Law Institute^ politics.

Civil Code (Obligations) — Civil Procedure Code — English Eq uity — Commercial Code — Jurisprudence — Public and Private International Law — Roman Law — Ad ministrative and Con stitutional Law — Bookkeeping — Moot Courts.

Each year is divided into two terms, some of the foregoing subjects being given in one term only, and others continuing through the year. The number of hours per week in the different years and sections varies from sixteen to twenty. The President of the in stitution is Mr. K. Hatoyama, formerly Dean of the Law Department in the Imperial University. The staff of lecturers in the Law Department numbers eleven, the most noted being Messrs. S. Isobe, Assistant Attorney-

4. German Law School. This school had its origin at a time when German influence had begun to affect Jap anese politics and science. Count Ito, whose European trip of 1881 had left him most favorably impressed with the German system of government, was in 1885-87 at the height of his power; and out of the general stimula tion a desire arose to have a school where German law could be directly studied in its original literature. This School of Law and Political Science was then founded in 1886, and the existing German Language School