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 THE JAPANESE NATION IN EVOLUTION, by William Elliot Griffis, author of "Fire-Fly Lovers and Other Fairy Tales of Old Japan," "The Mikado's Empire," "Korea the Hermit Nation," etc. For years a resident of the Orient, and in close touch with the life and affairs of Japan, Dr. Griffis commands attention as one of the foremost critics and students of that sub- ject. His style is forceful and entertain- ing, and there is the stamp of fair judg- ment, and the evidence of thorough knowl- edge. This distinguished educator organ- ized the first public schools on the west coast of Japan. He is the only foreigner living who, as a guest at a daimo's castle, saw the feudal system of Japan in opera- tion. He received honors and decorations from the Mikado, and many of his pupils of 1870-74 are now among the ambassa- dors, judges, statesmen and scientific men of Japan.

,. This work is the first to emphasize the coming of the Aryan white race to prehis- toric Japan, and shows how the Ainu and the Yamato peoples struggled during 2,000 years for supremacy, until the fusion of races made the present Japanese nation. He makes clear the absurdity of the com- mon error that the Japanese are Mon- golians.

Thos. Y. Crowell & Company, New York, 11.25.

GET-RICH-QUICK WALLINGFORD, A Cheerful Account of the Rise and Fall of

An American Business Buccaneer, by George Randolph Chester, is one of the cleverest delineations that has ever ap- peared of that shady type of man who lives by his wits. One of those operators so fre- quently met .with in America, whose capi- tal consists chiefly of an imposing per- sonal appearance, and a deep understand- ing of that weakness of mankind which disposes it to "bet on a sure thing," and a brain clever at devising "sure things." — sure only for the profit of Wallingford. He is constantly buzzing so closely about the flame of the law as eventually to get his wings scorched. Mr. Chester is an ex- ceedingly breezy and interesting writer, with a most intimate knowledge of Amer- ican types. Serially the story was one of the successes of "The Saturday Evening Post." The book is well illustrated, and well worth reading. Henry Altemus Company, Philadelphia,

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THOMAS ALVA EDISON, Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life, by Francis Arthur Jones. An enormous amount of magazine and newspaper space has been devoted to Edison and his work during the past forty years. It has remained for Mr. Jones to give us a work that has long been de- manded, and which, while it may not take the highest literary rank in the class of biography, gives us a clear and fascinating review of the life of the greatest modern

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