Japonica

The articles of Sir Edwin Arnold from Japan, originally printed in Scribner's Magazine, make an unexpectedly beautiful volume when collected. The letter press has lost none of its charm, of course, by its transference between boards, and the exquisite illustrations by Mr. Blum have gained immensely by their transference to better paper. No more appreciative sketch of Japan and the Japanese has ever been written, nor one more calculated by pen and pencil to cause that gay and picturesque peo...