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Rh ''Kōbokusha, the pasturage at Sengoku-hara. Streams of water issuing forth in the south-eastern valley of Hakone-machi, are used by whole inhabitants. Transparent and delicate liquid is constantly overflowing from the vat and its purity free from deflement so fully values on the applause of visitors as it is with the air.''—This little work of thirty-three tiny pages has an "Analysis" in four Parts and thirty-two Sections, and the first edition had the Preface at the end.

English as she is Japped has even crossed the seas. The following notice adorns a laundry in Thursday Island:

"We most cleanly and carefully wash our customers with cheap prices as under; Ladies eight shillings per hundred; gentlemen seven shillings per hundred."

Letters offer some choice specimens. We select two epistolary gems, only changing the proper names. The first is from a young man, who entered into friendly relations with the family of a certain consul, in order to perfect his English.