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"Perhaps all very marked national characters can be traced back to a time of rigid and pervading discipline"—WALTER BAGEHOT. [1] DIFFICULTIES A thousand books have been written about Japan; but among these,—setting aside artistic publications and works of a purely special character,—the really precious volumes will be found to number scarcely a score. This fact is due to the immense difficulty of perceiving and comprehending what underlies the surface of Japanese life. No work fully interpreting

"The Church at Yamaguchi from 1550 to 1586," by Satow,—Vol. VII. "Review of the Introduction of Christianity into China and Japan," by J. H. Gubbins,—Vol. VI. "Historical Notes on Nagasaki," by W. A. Wooley,—Vol. IX. "The Arima Rebellion," by Dr. Geertz,—Vol. IX. [488] (ON JAPANESE HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY) "Early Japanese History," by W. G. Aston,—Vol. XVI. "The Feudal System of Japan under the Tokugawa Shoguns," by J. H. Gubbins,—Vol. XV. —The extracts quoted from "The Legacy of Iyeyasu" have bee