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Monday, Decembee 11, 187G. 

 C. ProuNDES, an English gentleman who has spent 

 thirteen years in Japan, in the British Official Service, 

 gave a familiar talk on 



JAPAN AND THE JAPANESE. 



Around the room were arranged a great variety of 

 Japanese photographs, and colored pictures were exhib- 

 ited and explained in illustration of the speaker's remarks- 

 The photographs were exceedingly fine ones, and the pic- 

 tures were mostly cartoons, many of them of political 

 siirnificance. 



^ Also in summer. 



* Young. ill summer. 



