Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-05-12
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
The Army and Navy Proud
Of Its Literary Men.
y SERGEANT ON NAPOLEON
, New AnecdOte Told Of Alexander
Dumas, the Elder.
HENRY NoRMANs GREAT WORK
..hieyed a Grent success--A
nook Promised by Henry
II. stanley.
vssRY NoRMAN'S GREAT woR.

,itous for It's SUCCESS No.
,ha world are centred on Japan ana
\. ~, .,s,sr countries. Before the appear
= -. =, ,his work, MIR. Norman had al
~, manifested his insight as trav-
',44, Ia writer with graceful style
q NJ "The Real Japan" HIS new
~ Is a pretentious effort, covering
M aDes the British, French, Spanish
por,uFuese colonies. Siberia
~. 1anan. Korea, Siam and Malaga
~. ssa hook is the result Of nearly -FOUR
,',rs Of travel and study in the couh-
-. and colonies Of which 1t treats
n. author has not described or as
~ any Mace he did not visit, and
y very one he remained long enough
"a vas fortunate enough in learning
=, ylo,ys and experiences of the local
,r,bonties and best informed resi-
s,n,s. to make sure, at any rate that
:. a. moi misled into any hastily i'm
..,sslons. The author tells us that
+ss Incidents and adventures of the
Asnr are mingled with the factors ara
NJ satisfies of permanent problems
py his means l have hoped TO re-
pnduoe upon the readers nina some
ins OF the effect of the Far East
ron my own. 1t is a picture which IS
destined, either in bright colors or conf
bIae. 10 become increasingly familiar
d him In the future" a more COM
M and satisfactory work would be
nrd 10 imagine on the subject. The
YORK i embellished with several maps
md over a hundred half-tone repro
dattlons Of photographs taken, in most
prt, by the author
What Mr.. Norman has to say CT
Japan Of Today" Is of peculiar inter
| st at this time:
Japan has at length come Into her
Inheritance. kossuth Is reported TO
| hye said that the two most wonder
| I'd men In the world We're Prince Bis
| rarck and the Emperor OF Japan.
/ from one OF these the wonder has
pnsvhat abated OF late, but the
auniry Of the other has finally i'm
posed Itself upon the somewhat un-
Killing recognition OF the West. The
thld OF the worlds old age has
tnyed 10 be It's most remarkable Off
'wing. Until today, however, the
wild has not taken Japan quite SER
hasly, in spite OF the thousand of
travellers who have visited her and
fAs hundreds of volumes that have
hen written about her, But now that
Ae has been seen, sword in hand.
Txeeplng the Chinese hordes out of
Eorsa and Manchuria, driving the
Chinese ships off the sea and capturing
TER principal fortress in the course OF
morning, and at the same time con-
Gliding treaty with Great Britain
u equal terms, Japan stands no longer
need Of the encomiums and the
VI fitphecies Of her friends. Her leap
hsn teudalism TO modcrnlty is with
vt parallel. but everybody appre-
tates 1t now.
In quarter of a century she has
rrung from an Oriental despOtism
l1iing foreigners above all else, and
tfefng only from other Oriental des'
rusms by the fact that the ruling in.
iaence among her people was one OF
ne ltrictest, loftiest and most pune
Thus codes Of honor that man has
Wtf devised, to a nation whose army
"a navy may meet those Of contem'
wary Europe on equal terms, whose
ANs VIII bear comparison with any In
nsienee; whose manufactures are
enling Western producers from the
ND, whose art work has created Q
i,N standard OF taste abroad: whust
Nacation has produced band of eX
lsE1 second to nJne-it was n Japan
e physician who first discovered tbs
%siius % the bubonlc plague in Honl
Acas' whose colonizing strength sug
more than one alteration OF th'
~ u Asia; whose Official akstici
uuth ana elaboration leave Vhos'
@any western countries far behin'
's- 'ast budget covers 1855 printed
~, whose people are simply thirst
= LOT fresh fields to conquer, ant
ngth the mere idea of failure. Al
~ however, has become a common
~ Of Information, and so far as
eVhcerned, have written about I
hluch detail elsewhere, that her
nViuse TO touch upon two or tire
rsN OF Japanese life which char
.aie her more intimately toda.
"a ever before.
ne hrst aspect under which tn
.fa must now regard Japan witt
F, ~ interest Is that OF first
n,t ,vWsf' -Four years ago / wrot
me Japanese army was virtual
European force. and that II migh
counted upon TO make n desnerit
~ AGAINST any enemy in the world
I'M there Ia no longer any need 1
i" upon the armed strength OF ia
a., 'noe war-the supreme test =
50 anu parade-ground disposition
~ uiei 1t. The Japanese army an
* have proved themselves NOR
rsi sinal 10 the physical estlmat
a. hsi, admirers formed Of then
/, ya,lapluiy as Germany. when Vo
1 ,ns telegraphed "Kriegmobli." tn
"a a was ready. Force after fore
,is.vve spatched with a secrecy, a sin
Hst e., a r celebrity and completeness
ns s, ~ european nations could equa
nerSsnS,es came to the colors Wit
I Aisfsliy nn, precision; and this tim
,ossut's famous rhra s,n, ,m A isaisin
! Aeir equlp,nent 49, fs'.. w"s iachil