RAMBLES THROUGH JAPAN WITHOUT A GUIDE.

New York 1894, Baker. New black cloth, old decorated cloth layed down, 15 steel engravings, 287p, very good, discreet library stamp & number on title page, exceptionally clean, NOT a library mark otherwise, bright copy. R A R E The author used Albert Leffingwell as a pseudonym and has so signed this work, with his true name in parenthesis below this. This excellent primary work covers the author's three month sojourn to the interior of Japan. Arrival at Yokohama Yokohama, stroll in the Japanese & Chinese quarters. Experi- mental trip, wayside tea houses, the superstitions, first night at a Japanese country in, a bath under difficulties, dinner entertainment. Nikko & its shrines: temple architect- ure. Traveling alone on the Tokaido to Kyoto, inquisitive fellow passengers and village industry. Arrival at Ozawa, on the Naka-sen-do highway, Usui pass, the chanting pilgrims. Wada pass, new costumes, Japanese dogs, Matsumoto & the mou- ntain region. In the heart of Japan, Mitake to Otsu, Gifu, Benkei's kettle. Kioto: ancient capital, great Temples, nude sinners. Nara & Koyasan, tea plantations Uji, great bell, hospital monks. Osaka, American missionaries, Okayama, Hiro- shima, statistics, death rates, missionary work, hope for the future. .