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told tales — Count Okuma — The Countess — 

 Bishop Harris — Lectures in Tokyo — Ume 

 Tsuda — A useful warning — Misfits in inter- 

 pretation — Quick to catch a joke — Unfair 

 advantage — The two Pucks — Not unfriendly 

 cartoons — "Peace Medicine" 



3. Sendai for a second time — Hospitality without 

 stint — The Ozaki dinner — The Ozakis them- 

 selves — The Ishii banquet — Kaneko, Kato, and 

 Zumoto — Shibusawa — The Shibusawa lunch- 

 eon — An interesting conference — Uneducated 

 emigrants an obstacle — Manchurian railway — 

 Press perversions — • Terauchi — Austerity and 

 mirth — A feudal tragedy — Morinobu's life of 

 lyeyasu — The Okuma luncheon — Iwasaki — 

 Mitsu Bishi Club — 'A talented hostess — Im- 

 proved status of women 



4. The Emperor — The Empress — A beautiful 

 bauble — Fruitful discussions — Ichihashi 

 returns to Stanford — The Yamamoto tea — 

 At Zojoji temple — Frederick Starr — Prince 

 Tokugawa — Academic dinners — A bad exemplar 



— Tea with Okura — Moon fete — Bankers' 

 Association dinner — Mrs. Apcar — Owston 

 the naturalist — Tanaka — Ishikawa at Bergen 



— No Michel Sars 



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1. Japanese railways — Comfortable security — 

 Nagoya — The " H.C.L." — A great compliment 



— At Kyoto — Kyoto's glories — Good humor 



— At Kobe — Not pioneers — Robert Young 



2. The Land of Morning Calm — Seoul — Seoul 

 Y. M. C. A. — The Korean tongue — The Yama- 

 gata dinner — Supper in native style — Katha- 

 rine Wambold — The quaint old city — Yang 

 Ban — Leopard eyes in Japanese art — Fishes 

 of Korea — Curious reasoning — Good and bad 

 in Japanese occupation — The "squeeze" — A 



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