r from Tokyo, a letter about Korea
is a letter from Korea, etc., and shift his viewpoint accordingly. I
have also thought it best to be frank with the reader and let the
chapters on China remain exactly as they were written--presenting a
pen picture of the Dragon Empire as it appeared on the eve of the
outbreak, while the revolution was indeed definitely in prospect but
not yet a reality.

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"Give us as many anecdotes as you can," was old Samuel Johnson's
advice to Boswell, when that worthy proposed to write of Corsica; and
this wise suggestion I have sought to keep in mind in all my travel.
Moreover, another saying of the great lexicographer's comes quaintly
into my memory as I conclude this Foreword: "There are two things
which I am confident I could do very well," he once remarked to Sir
Joshua Reynolds; "one is an introduction to any literary work stating
{x} what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most
perfect manner: the other is a conclusion, showing from various causes
why the execution has not been equal to what the author promised to
himself and to the publick!"

C. P.
Raleigh, N. C.
December 1, 1911.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Japan: The Land of Upside Down 3

A Land of Contradictions
Music as an Example
Marriage and the Home Life
Patriarchal Ideas Still Dominant.

II. Snapshots of Japanese Life and Philosophy 9

What a Japanese City Is Like
Strange Clothing of the Japanese
Who Ever Saw So Many Babies?
Alphonse and Gaston Outdone
The Grace of the Little Women
How the Old Japan and the Old South Were Alike
A "Moral Distinction" Between Producers and Non-Producers.

III. Japanese Farming and Farmer Folk 17

Japanese Farm Children Getting More Schooling
than American Farm Children
No Illiteracy in the New Japan
Where Five Acres Is a Large Farm
How Iowa Might Feed the Whole United States
Farming Without Horses or Oxen
What the Japanese Farmers Raise
The Crime of Soil-waste
All Work Done by Hand
Cooperative Credit Societies a Success
Farm Houses Grouped in Villages
"A Seller of the Ancestral Land"
The Japanese Love of the Beautiful a Suggestion for America.

IV. "Welfare Work" in Japanese Factories 29

Manufacturing Bound to Increase
Tariff Legislation Unfair to Agricultu