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CANTON RAILWAY.
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learned.zinologues have, proved it to rest) HUNG HOM......Arr: 8.4 an hom re substantial mais of fact than
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lungun cycle, the natside world would have accepted it without question. But Brams den, forty years ago, exploded the myth, bringing the beginnings of Japanese history down to about the year off of oorem; Aston and Stow and Chamberlain and Murdoch bare cach and all shown up the iconsin- tauties and wholesale falsehoods which LOWD form the woft and warp of the Mihongi and " thu Anidis on which the Inpuese bao Yet despite it all tho Japanese in their desire to exalt the 'Em- IWASAKI,Perar and socure the apotheosis of the Throne stick to their own declaration and
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forbid their people holding any other faith. It is a strange mental twist in the Į intellectund make-up of a people so very Lasinpaplatintie-mud mutte-of-fact as the Japanese at Bomer, he author of the present work, goes to sumo - siderable length in his introduction to show how the men of the twelfth century Corporation will be held at the CITY! Hongkong," on SATURDAY, the &A. D. were the true forefathers of the present 5th day of February, 1911, at Noon, for Co.
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family then another rose to be the par- amount power ip the land, using the Tenno, or Emperor, merely as a puppet to Le pandered to, coercet, or deposed, just suited their particular interest, and when the line faded out secured the adoption of a likely child to keep op Bougkong, Jancary 9, 1909818 the family name. The author" "also
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shows how much “bunkum" has been imparted of into yours into the theory of bushido, the way of the warrior, and dis- provas very conclusively the arguments of Dr Nitabu as to the high ethical stand ards on which it was supposed to be based Whether it was worth Mir de Benneville's while to go-to-such lengths in upsetting the pretensions of the modern Imperialists of Japan must remain a dis- puted point, for so much depends upon the individual point of view. He evidently thoroughly enjoyed the sport of sifting the records and finding out where the few thin
So much for the introduction. The stories which fallow of Yoshitsune and his famous follower Benkei, the warrior monk, are capitally told, fall justice being done to the Rabelais speet" of many of them. Thor give one a clearer idea of how the Japanese fighting man was evolved, and
how the idunts of the men who fought in
threads of truth were really drawn through the gorgeously variegated garmbat of a national illusion. He has rather spoiled his book, however; by the introduction of slang éxpressions_which_seriqusiz_jar_ (f.) The CUYO, a sd-guing and harbor upon the ear as much as they fund the Guinch, 80 feet yer all, benz 14 feet.
sare vertical invertel eye. His intention is evidently le bo jocone draft feet.
18-1/2 but unfortunately heisnota horn humourist, condensing type, sizu x14 stroke, slide valves and rescripy and therefore cannot ford to act the part car, Stedunsor link, motion, surface of a chartered libertine when juggling with Condenser, circulating, sit, bilge and feed pump attached to engine, at one inde the English Imguage. But for this defect pendent donkey pump in engine room: students would gladly welcome his work,
ler 8 feet long, fee inches in we feel quite sure, diameter, single fümurçe. Seulek matine
16.) The JERVEY, a centerboard shop (of 17.61 tone, 196 net, 46 feet long, Den 13 fext, 4 fout 6 inches depth of holdi The CAPTAIN FISHER, & center sketch length over all 62 feet, beam 16 Feet, depth of hold 9 feet, mailusat 56 feet by 10 inches diameter, jigger 44 feet by inches diameter, main boom 24 feet, inches diameter, main guff 4 feet by inchus slikmeter, erger
22 feet by inches dimeter. jigger gulf 20 feet by inches diameter, wit 16 feet by the whole nation and remain a living force inches. wpirit boom 16 feet long, frame, to this day than do the piles of rabbish in fuel, abadi, stumpost, centerboard and the way of "appreciations" and "explana and well of native hard wood, planking of tions" which the inte war oraked. Just as Oregon pine sheathed is full only, they fought to secure place and power, so | length over all 63 feet, 3 Inches, beam does the un-dern Japanese rule his life
moubled 11 feet, Indr" inches, depth moalledet. This bunch has been that ho any by sore means or other stripped of all machinery and only bull is rise to a position where he may exercise for le.
éven a little power or derive averi Senle bils will be received up to nul including March 10, 1011, and will riding emolument while at the fine publicly
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the wars of the Gempei have permented THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO.,
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the Tapanese of to-day as to those of seven HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., play gf the 2.36) Rajputs wi
hundred years ago. There ancient berocs
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let, or for both
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| Jesú astonishment on the part of this latter- day in than of themselves. They would find themselves with far larger circle of nequaintance, than they posstered in the own times, and one which regarded them with equal respect and ad instion "Again, referring to the uimosphero of formal and formalism in which they moved, the author say: "Here we have the greatest in- tensity of ne iou nominally directed to formal ends. The whole is most bellow hypocrisy, lan hers are working for themselves and their Ambitions, but chey will not out with it." To give readers, who rany not the ncquainted with the stories of Old Japan an iden of the charactors of the two men whose exploits Mr do Beuneville Zwolle upon
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ali ton brief reviw. Bauke ia sort
make one more quotation, ere closing this
of Little John, Will Scarlet, and Friar
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