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Rh be mentioned The Opening of Japan, by Shimada Saburō; The History of Two Thousand Five Hundred Years, by Takekoshi Yosaburō; The History of the Tokugawa Shōguns, by Naitō Chiso; The Decline and Fall of Feudalism, by Fukuchi Genichirō, The Japan of the Future, by Tokutomi Iichirō, and the same author's Life and Opinions of Yoshida Shoin; A Treatise on the Constitution, by Ono Azusa; the Constitution itself, with Marquis Itō's Commentary (see p. 219); Nakamura's excellent translation of Smiles' Self-Help, together with such more recent scholastic works as Mikami and Takatsu's History of Japanese Literature, two great dictionaries, namely, Ōtsuki's Sea of Words and Ochiai's Fountain of Words, Takahashi Goro's excellent Japanese-English dictionary, Taguchi's encyclopaedia entitled A Dictionary of Japanese Society, Tsubouchi Yuzō's History of English Literature and Kuroiwa's work on monism entitled A Treatise on Heaven and Man. But the work which undoubtedly did more than any other single factor to mould Japan into its present shape was The Condition of Western Countries by Fukuzawa—a book now thirty years old. The reception accorded to the same author's "Hundred Essays," published in 1897, showed his popularity to be as fresh as ever; and his Autobiography, which appeared in 1899, has since then passed through thirty-four editions, and is, in the present writer's opinion, one of the most interesting books in the Japanese language. The fact that it is written in colloquial should facilitate its perusal by foreign students.

And now it may be asked: What is the value of this Japanese