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THE TWO GLASSER

There at two glasses filled to the briso, On a rich man's iable, rim to rim, One was riddy and red as blood, And one was dest as the regstal food. Baid the glass of wine to the puler brother, "Let us tell the tales of the past to each other; I can tell of banquet and reveland wirth, And the proudest and grandest souls on ear.h Fell under my touch as though struck by blight, Where I was king, for I rated in might. From the heads of kings I have torn the crown. From the height of fame I have buried man down; I have blasted many an honoured nawić,

I have taken virus and given ebame

I have tempted the youth with a sip, a taste,

-That has made his future a barren wagte,

Eargreater than king am I,

Or than any army beneath the sky.

I have made the arm of the driver fail,

And sent the train from the iron rail;

I have made good shipa go down-nt sen, “

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scientific, and aristio nlture, and the master of a vigorous and picturesque style. When, in the early months of fast year, he paid what may to dearibed sa a semi-official visit to Japan, he had, he tells us, no intention of writing book boat, the country but much a purpose was soon forced upon him by the interest ho felt in all that he saw and heard, and as he had, within certain limits, exceptional opportunities of ob- ervation, the reading public has good cause to be thankful that he dedertook the task he has so well discharged in these volumes. The plan of the book is somewhat comprehensive. The author has sought to present a history of Japan frota the earliest period, embracing net And the shrieks of the lost were sweel ta me merely a record of political events, but an account of the establishment and growth of the religions syat is that have played so important a part in, ita social organism; and after thus tracing the story of the life of the nation, he has also endeavoured to depict its present conditions, sucial and material, as they came under his own personal observa Of hands I have cooled and souls I have shedtion. While his opportunities in this I have leaped throng's the valley, dashed down latter direction were, sa we have already

the mountain, Flowed in the river and played in the fountain,sat, exceptionally great, they were also Slept in the wutshine and dropped from the sky, restricted. within certain well-defined And everywhere gladdened the landscape and syenita, Sir Edward-Reed went to Japan I have eased the bot forehead of fever and paint the invitation of a member of the I have made the parched meadows grow fertile Ministry, whose guest he was during

with grain....

the whole pariod of his stay in the I can tell of the powerful wheel of the mill; That ground out the flour and taped at my will; country. His intercomitse throughout I can tell of toanhood dehased by you,

his visit was with the official elas alone, and all that he saw he saw under official Under such circumstances it auspica

For they said,+Behold-how gráar yon ha : Fame, strength, wealth, genius before you fall, And your right and power are over all, Hello pala brother," langbed the wine, **Ca you boast of deeds as great as mine?“. Said the water glass, "I cannot bonat

Of a king dethroned or a murdered host;

Bat I can tell of a heart once sad,

By my crystal drops-nigde light and glad,

Of thirst I've gebed and brows I've laved:

That I have lifted and crowned anew.

I choor, 1 help, 1 strengthen and aid;

I gladden the heart of man' and toid

I set the chaiced wine-cptive fe

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house with the assent of the great mass of the people. Sir Edward Reed's pitome of the causes which brought about the revolution of 1868, and of the circum stances of that memorable "episode, ín Japanese history, is as instructive as it is picturesque; and he also furnishes a vivid account-epitomised from the valuable work of Mr Mounsoy-of the last dying struggle of feudalism in the Satamine rebellion of 1877.

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"Nor drank,” said an elderly military are charged as double, trable, &c, as the offic r. "No," replied the professor; case may be, but suoly papers or packets or but I was about to explain to you how papers may be sent at Book Rate. Two Printed a Kun-tzu or heroic man may hy gradas! Newspapers must not be folded together as steps, attain to that perfect state of one, por mast anything whaleser be inserted whole be paid at Book Rale. Prices Our+ tranquillity or central and frantabla ascept bona fide Supplemente, calm, which neither the elements without matter may, however, be suclosed, if the oor the passions within can disturb; rent may be paid either as Newspapers or Commercial Papera sighify such papers which baving attaland, the whole Booke univores may be rolled up and put into

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"I supporn," continued the professor, you know the five elements the effects of which upon the outer produce wind, rain, thunder, and all other natural phenomena, and wi hin the body of man give rim to the passions of sex, hunger, and seasickness."

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While, however, the bistorical portion of this book is likely to have permanent value, readers who seek for amusement rather than information will doubtless find more to attract thera in the second volume, in which the author describes what he saw and ascertained as to the present material conditions of Japan, her chief cities, her places of pilgrimage, hor pleasure-resorts, her arts and litera tare, during his visit to the country, which doenpiod the first three months of Sir Edward Beed presents last year lively descriptions of Yokohama, Tokio Yeddo, Nagaani, Osaka, Nara, Kioto, Nagoya, among the citics of Jajar. He has also a great deal to tell about the Shiuto and. Budhist shrines, the forms and rules of worship there observed, and incidentally about the position, influence, and present attitude of the priesthoods of both the national religions. The rail- roads the other means of internal con munication-which are, by the way, exoedingly defeotiya from a Western point of view-the country scenery, and toh phases of domestic life among the higher classes as came under Sir Ed is obvious that he could not penetrate ward's observation during journey in

"Indeed". I said, "I am not aware into the inner lite of the people, or form the course of which, he was everywhere way opinion as to the sentiments with received with the most cordial hospita that modern chemistry has classified the "Yes," said the professor, "or rather which the mass of the community regardlity, have all their due share of notion; siements into fire, water- the changes inaugurated during the last Two of the most important chapters in

Instead of few years, and all being pushed forward the work are those on the Language this is what we are coming to; only we

on give them different names. with such remarkable onergy and and Literature" of Japan, and THE HISTORY OF JAPAN.rapidity. To do him justico, be maken "Drawing and Painting." Our author the element water we say hydrogen, From an interesting review of Sir Edno pretonge of having accomplished does not attempt to do more than allade which is the type of that element isto anything of this kind. He wok-cannot to the indistinctive peculiarities of the which all elements with the atomic value ward J. Reed's "History of Japan," he regarded as on exhaus iro account of language, and the interesting philogi- of 1 are resolvablo. Now, sir, you will published in the Scotsman, we take tiro Japan; but so far as it goes, it deserves cal problems connected with the ques-fud in the Chiness Books, the numerical to be received as thoroughly trustworthy; tions of its origin and afficities. But he value given to the element water in its following extracts :-

into detail respecting positive stata is 1. But to take another and it contains on itomense sount of euters more practical information of great value, pro- Japanese poetry, shows that in this cloment which will better illustrate my sented in a style which would give department the literature of the country theory. Oxygen is the type of the is remarkably rich, and gives translations element fire. In its positive slate its interest to almost any subject.

executed for him by Captain Brinckley atomic value is 3, and in the negativa er and others of some specimens which as ozone, the value is 4 exactly the But," I said, "the atomic theory is more than justify his laudatory criticisms. same as we find itia the Chinese books" there is one which merits his observation

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opinion. He describes with some detail states, positive and negative; only it has "Men of science," 1 here remarked, duotory chapter. He says that "there the sucessiva schools of painting which not yet lieen possible to exhibiti is one thing about which all cluesca in have flourished in the country, frenght then to study the Chinese clasice Japan agree the Optimist as well as

period oonsiderably more remote than Bạc the Persis, the Conservative samurai the date of the earliest painters of Italy Granting that their equally with the Republican student and Flandera

"Exactly," continued the professor,

Bolf-government had remained absolutely namely, that the diplomacy of the Bu-drawing is almost always conventional, without paying attention to my inter-1

path; and wheeled vehicles, except of the Japanese.

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"But what about the soa sickness "

Or how to avoid getting drunk

Now you must know," said the pro- "the human body like the mate fossor, On

is

accurate information respecting this very interesting.country.

opean Powers has been seriously do-though sometimes remarkably froe and ruption, the figures attached to the trimental to the true interests of Jaquen;" of Western science and civilisation are and what is worse, he adils, that if we pirited, that they have no knowledge off elements which we had in the Chinese perspective, or scientific acquaintance books might give us a clue to the being planted wholesalo in-a-county may judge-by-the openly expressed with ebiscoscuro, Sie Edward holds, and allotropic states of the other elementa whose inhabitants had been taught to sentiment of the Japanese, England is look upon alt foreigners as barberians the greatca sinner in this particular." (quales high authorities in support of his hitherto kaown as non-allotropic Twenty years ago there, were fow reads Nor does he hesitate to let it he ween wet of their picturo, Japaneses artis said a young diplomate, who did not in Japan which wore better than bridle that his own opinion coincides with that aru singularly successful, and that as Duderstand what allotropic meant, and He discusses the colourists they are, within cortain limits therefore could not follow the learned such as wore drawn by men, were prac various grievances which the Guvern-domly skilful. Borrowed originally professor's discourse tically unknown. Now, the countryment of the contitry has against fore- from China, their decorative art possess nearly 100 miles of railway igner--that of the persistent mainten-takers & development of its own which said the elderly military gentleman. while the construction of about 500 more auce, not only of Consular jus isdiction, will long form an interesting subject of is contemplated; there is a telegraph but of Consular legislation; the defiance study to visitors of aesthetic tastes. system of me thousands of miles, and a foreigners of Japanese quarantine-re- the whole, a partial-of-this-work will rial universe is composed of the same postal service superior to those of many gulations and local polico laws; the leave behind a very, favourable impro five elemente, The haman boly is, in; European countries A police force on refusal of the European Powers to con- sion of Japan sad its people. No brok fact, as the Chinese philosophiementy of the English model, an army drilled and sent to the revision of the Treaties ex- that has yet appeared on the subject microcosmos, the faward movement of disciplined by French officers, a navy torted in 1858; and as furth-and botter adapted to extend and popularise which are manifested in the phenomena composed chiefly of ironclad or iron- belted steamships, have replaced the two- argucs with much force that on a these

points great injnative is being done awarded followers of the feudal nobility, Japan. The main aspiration of the the junks and sampane that represented Japanese," he says, "ia for their country the military and naval power of Japan to be treated by the other Posers on even a recently as in 1870.

The story of the circumstances attend terms of absolute equality-to have its so-called sovereign rights fully recog ing these remarkable changes in Japan nised, and its liberty of action UD-

there is no wind there is no wind when there is an equilibrium in the atmos has often bean told, and since European fettered." While it may be conceded

'pivere; in order that the atmosphere may intercourse with the country has been that the readiness with which the Go

The last time I had the honor of us in a state of equilibriums, the corres reopened, a great many books have bees verament of Japan has adopted the writion about it. Nevertheless, the amount of accurate knowledge possessed methods of modern Western civilisation seeing the Earl of who was then sponding elements within the human

entitles them to make the demand with Secretary of Foreign lairs, when I body must also be in that state."

"Observe," said the Earl, "the learn- by the public at large concerning far more of justice than it would have if west to receive my credentials which

in the great lesson (Ya Japanese history and the present.pondi- tions of the people is as yet but little, put forward, for example by China, Bir were to accredit me to the Court ofed professor is developing a Chiasse syl-

Edward Read forms too sovore a judg- Peking, be invited me to dino with him. logism as given

"The elements within the human body. Many of those who have written onment as to the policy paned towards rest at dinner that evening several Haaa)," those subjects have bestowed upon we Japan hitherto by the European Govern-sinologues of great repute and clergyman only the fruits of imperfec: information monts, and especially by Great Britain, who had been missionaries in Chios. and hasty and in many cases quite That policy may have been to some ex-During the course of the evening, the superficial observation. Then certain ideas became "current during the first ent highhanded, but it is very doubtful Earl said to me

whether gentler moans would have saf

THE DIARY OF KU TA-JEN'S MISSION TO CHINA:

BRA-SIUKNESS, AND CHINESE DHILOSOPHY. (Shanghai Mercury.).

"Are you a good sailor?" "No," I said."

"Then have you read Dr Legge's translations of the Chinese ClassiOS ?*

years of the renewed intercourse, which feed to attain the strictly legitimato ead more intimate acquaintance with the in view. Japanese have showed to be wholly or Bir Edward Reed's history of Japan in great part erroneous But false im begins after a brief description of the "Well," I replied, "I have teled to, premions of this kind, when they have physical geography of the country, and but I must confess that I could nover once gained acceptance, have a peculiar of the personal appearance of the people get beyond the first page or two for tenacity of life. Thus it may be asserted with an account of their mythology, I think Dr Leggs in learning Chinoso, with confidence that nine people out of and is brought down to the events which has forgotten his English, every ten in Great Britain who know or have happened within the last half-dozen oare anything at all about Japan, are years. It is uncontestably the best still fully convinced that, when the popular exposition of the subject that European Powers broke down the barrier has yet appeared in our language. Larger of seclusion set up by the native Govern and more detailed histories of Japan ment, Japan was under the rule of a have been written, but not one which "Spiritual" and a "Temporal" Emperor conveys more clearly or vividly to the to do with my not being a good sailor}" yet there is not the smallest foundation reader's mind the political vicissitud

"At any rate," said the noble Earl, you must make yourself thoroughly acquainted with the dotrine of the Middle or the Centz and Imrantable Philosophy, if you are not a good anilor" But what have the Chinese.classics

"O a great deal," said the Earl ;

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are not in equilibrium when they are

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of fact for this idea, beyond the tradition of the island-empire, with its haughty bus for explanation I must refer you that the family of the Mikados-the feudal zobility gradually "trenching on to Professor here, who has spent oldest reigning house in the world of the privileges of the sovereign the forty years of his life in studying the divine origin. Sir Edward Reed has added another to the considerable list of people do not appear to have had any two books sienie-the Ta haio, or the to treash upon till they had converted Great Lesson, and the Doctrine of the the Government into an oligarchy, std Middle

United Kingdom may be consulted at Hoogkong an i Shanghai,

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Jeune République Tars, Dividend Warrants, Invitations; Cards, name) but the name of the Payee need not Graflo and Japan, may deliver them to the Post through a Bank, and may afterwards be Blongkong, Bangkok, or the Porte of China are dressed). It can then be paid only Indancial Age Office unstampid,

the postage being then spesialy created to any Banks Japan Harald Kell Summary.

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also Boxbolden maya

send-Patierne order op be transferred to sauther office Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, to the same places in the same way. En on payment of an additional comuniston Long Taland Redond

Medical Tires and Gaveite. velopes containing Patterns may be wholly In case of loss of an order, nec anlly for anche la Conder Chinese translation of His Excalenty Ka Ta-olored if the nature of the content be at stopping payment, or the like, application Mossiger de Casur de Jesne,

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- the order be not presented within Mondeur Tee jail's diary. We have not been able to discover exhibited or mated to the Footmunter whould be made to the nearest Money Miger de Co who this Ku Is-jen may be not the original General, as he may consider necessary, and Order Office for instruation. Molteur de la Banqu

B. B. K. Irmulator, be inserted in sach Pattern Pack English verdon of the day.

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there is no chhing a Parool Port the money will be forfeited. When the Peter to Europe, Much trouble and disapa order is once paid no further claim can be gaan Pa

entertained. pointment are caused by persistent attempla

No enter cần be paid until the advice Bunday Marzalne.

Sword 14 t The power of old tradition over the books, wore long nails, which however Japanese is sigually ilustrated by the were kapt very clean. The Professor

way home over the Albany and Busquehanna PortFana, Qurios Articles of Drem relative to it has been received. fast that, though prior to the revolution then drank off his wine and began as Two Var College girls were on their to send small valuable trifles through the railroad the other day Maryland 1 Fahey Work, and similar presenta are cons of 1863, the Mikados had been deprived follows

yelled the hakeman, as the train pulled up dunkly being refused, the

his public services by producing a book which will onable anybody who reads to banish all inaccurate as of this 7klad once and for over from his mind

Bir Edward is not only one of the most delnguished of living naval architects, and an able politican; he is also a traveller of grost experience, a keen and alose observaz, a man of high literary,

Yapan Als History, Traditions, and fallsigns.

Edward 3, E61, E.0.8, 3.19, MP, 268

enabled three successive lines of Bhogans, The Professor referred to was a thin

or Mayors of the Palace, to concentrate lanky gentleman with snow white locks,

the excoulive power in their own hands, who, from his admiration of the Chinese 3o. 5. M.

of all veal power for three hundred years In the first place must make you at least, yot when the rule of the Shoguns acquainted with the ways of a superior at a station What did he my caked offer pent note in Postage than would

With the Natrative of Viel la 1899, broke down before the pressure of foran. A superior man in Chinese to one of the guls, Me-land" replied have paid the reight bo

eigners from without and the disapntest Chun-ten of Kun-tao, which in derivation the other. Oh, let's get out !" esclauded refund can be made on such parcel

usture of the contenta of the great daimios from within, absolute is the same as the German. Konty, var the first with sudden interest But they value of Stamps oblit authenty was restored to the Imperial English king, which we know oomed were too late the traits had norted,

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