1st Edition

The Every-Day Book (4-vol. ES set)

    2700 Pages
    by Edition Synapse

    Published by EPM in Japan and distributed by Routledge outside of Japan

    • A facsimile reprint of the 1826-27 edition of The Every-Day Book, the successful year book by William Hone, a renowned nineteenth-century British publisher/bookseller, as well as a writer and satirist.
    • With many illustrations the publication shows us vividly English life in each season throughout the year.
    • A useful reference tool for any institutions with courses of English and Nineteenth-Century Studies.

    cONTENTS (Sample articles from the 1890 issues)

    A Dictionary of Japanese Law Terms

    A Much-married Man

    Affairs in Korea

    Amalgamation of Political Parties

    Asiatic Society of Japan

    Changes in Local Government

    Count Itagaki’s Political Influence

    Cruelty to Animals in Japan

    Education in 1889

    Inauguration of the Leper Hospital at Koyama

    Japan Becoming Famous

    Japan in Their Dealings with Foreigners

    Japanese Emigration to Hawaii

    Japanese Foreign Trade in 1889

    Kano Hogai

    M. Boissonade’s Reply to the Objectors

    Maruyama Okyo

    Messrs. Shibusawa and Iwasaki

    Missions in Japan

    Mr. Lowder and Treaty Revision

    Mr. Osaki Yukio and the New Cabinet

    Mr. Sonoda Kokichi on British Trade

    New Edition of "The Light of Asia"

    Nippon Onagaku Kwai

    Postal Saving Banks in Japan

    Professor E. Fenollossa

    Professor Toyama on Current Educational Methods

    Proposed Honours to the Pioneers of Western Learning

    Pugilistic Females

    Railways in Japan

    Red Cross Society of Japan

    Religious Government in Japan

    Reminiscences of a Japanese Art Studio of Former Days

    Rice

    Silk in 1889

    Sir Edwin Arnold and the Satsuma Rebellion

    Subsidy to Tea Exporters

    The "Aikoku-koto" Party 

    The "Kirin" Beer at the Industrial Exhibition

    The "Kokumin-no-Tomo"

    The 11th National Bank and the Mitsubishi

    The Bank of Japan and the Present Financial Depression

    The Bible of the Church

    The Complete Bible in Japanese

    The Famine Relief Funds

    The Influenza Epidemic

    The Japanese in California

    The Japanese in Korea

    The Koto Chiu Gakko Affair

    The Meiji Art Association

    The Nationalistic Movement in Japan

    The New Journalism

    The Other Side of the Treaty Negotiations with Japan

    The Photograph Family

    The Photographic Society of Japan

    The Progress of Science during the Past Twenty Years

    The Question of Prostitution

    The Riukiu Islands

    The Seismological Society of Japan

    The Stock Market

    The Tendency of Japanese Christianity

    The Third National Exhibition

    The Yokosuka Outrage

    The Yotsuya Ghost

    Watanabe Kazan

    Yokohama Literary Society etc.