The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-29

pdIelI IL yer OF VlrnlSn, IN OtneTS Jdpdunetl
or curiou3ly carved with branched work
neatly gilt. The floors were covered with
the finest white mats bordered with gold
fringes or bands
This was all the furniture that u trav.
eller could see 10 the palaces of the Shotgun
and of the Princes Of the Empire.
This transcript of life as it was in seven
teenth century Jar an was well worth re-
printing. 1t will be re ad with heen interest,
not only by English sre aking People but
by the Jaranese of our w Cay.
We would not take lie save of these volumes
without a glance at some ar ondioes,
which tre at Of the history Of the tea Plant
and Of the making Of jar anese T ar err, as
that manufacture was rIaotsed in the
seventeenth century. KaemT fer's account
of the wav in which tea was made and
drunk in China and JaT an must have inter-
est,d his first readers gre atty, for the
beverage had become faS hiopable in Irg-
Ian during the reigns of n and George
l.. 1t is Pointed out that the Chinese n ace,
"a they still male, a simrle infusion of the
tea leaves in hot water, Hh.oh is drcnk as
soon az the aromatic qualities of the plant
have been extracted and b, fore the a tr. L.
gent elements have been drawn OFT. In
kaempfer's tine, on the other hand, ii e
ia anese used to prepare their tea by or nd
ing. ION the day before they were used,
or sometimes on the same cav, the caves
were reduced to a fine Powder by being
ground in a hand mill made Of a black,
greenish stone called serT ert.ne stone.
The powder is then mixed with hot water
! until it forms a thin pulp, which is siI red.
This tea was called ko'ts lea, Il at is, III ok
tea, by way of distinction from the hin
tea made BY Infusion 1t was koitsjaa
WI ca tn, rich people in Iana1 used TO drink
da ly in the seventeenth century. ! aem-
pier notes al external Use Which used to he
| ma IL of tea in the Far East, after it had
lost most of its favor and aroma from
ag,. 1t was then emploved in the dyeing Of
silk stufs. to which L gave a brown or
| chestnut color. He was told that the best
and most refreshing tea must be at least
a wear old, and that in Jar an it was never
| drunk fresher, unless it were mixed with an
elral u"antty of an older crop.
In Kaempfer's time paper was made in
Europe out Of old RAGS and he was, there
fore, surprised to find that in Japan parer
was made Of the bark of the Norus Papyr-
iierd sai,d, or true paper tree. He de-
scrit es in detail the process of manu-
fac'ure and shows how rice. reduced to a
pulp. IVES blended with the wood pulp in
order to rive the paper a white color and
firm consistency. He adds that tie Jap
anese rice was much the best for the pur-
pose, az being the whitest and latest sort
of that grain grown in Asia. Kaempfer
adds that all Of the peoples east Of the
| Canoes made rarer of the bark of trees
and shrubs, while. on tit other hand, the
| Asiatic nations west Of the Ganres, with
the exception Of the dark skinned inhati-
tan's of the moro southern parts, made
their paper of old RI 6 ! of cotton s'u's s.
their process differing in no wise from
that then employed in urope. NJ. w. H.
NAPOLEON From q German Point OF View.
The latest addition to the History of All
Majors" serbs, now in cours, of publica-
ton by Lea Bros. & Co., is a volume Gllo' It'd
to The Ndpoleonic Empire by 1uEo OR
F. ATH3, late g neritus professor at ST. AfrI,
NJ, ISIS n author of the History of the
Restoration and of the Revolution ISIS
5l." Tie trar 81 ltiol of the German origi-
nal has been executed under the super
vision Of DR.. John Henry Wright, professor
Of Greek In Harvard u. "iversity and
dean in the gradufte SCHOOL. THIS book
| takes I'D the career Of Napoleon in 1896,
wien lie was at or near tie height Of is
rover. and carries lis to Is second abdioa-
| lion at tie end Of the Hundred Days. OF
| course it is written not from tIe Gallo
but from tie Teuto-io Point of view. T.e
most striking char ters of the work are
| tLose w.. ich deal vita the campaign of 1914
In France and with tho B,ttle of Waterloo.
II is by some r ferences to theso that we
can best exem, lily the distinctive quality
OF e is German study Of Ntrolcon.
Prof. Flathe attributes the ~prolongation
! OF NCpoleon's delth struggle and the series
O. sue esses gained by him in the early
| nsrt of be campai-n Of 1874 to the m mage
ment of the war by Sohwarzenberg, the
Austri.p commandments a manage
! ment shaped par.ly by timi~i,y and partly
by poll 10 ! considerations. At his head
| Quarters sill lingerel the oil superslition
that not the destruction Of the no jtile
army Is the main aim of scientific warfare,
but skilful m~anHuvrlng TO master certain
strategic points. He was the less intent
upon prosecuting a winter campaign In
lsls-14 wi h vigorous military operations
because he had imagined that the invasion
| OF French soil and the occupation of the
! plateau Of Langres would suffice 10 force
Napoleon to make peLoe. 1t was at the
foot of that plAteLu itself that AustriI's
| Bohemian army frat encountered Mor,ier,
who had only 1?,o0 to i4.ooo men. Yet
| This small h nd suhlcel, to eau @ fire. al
! delays aud, III niiy, it withdrew unmolc stei
from the foe that coinpasse1 it. tf.er keep
ing that zoe Gt'bcy for no less thln FIVE
day. II took 10000 AustrianS a full month
to pass over the 100 miles between Basic
| and Langres. Arrived at the last named
pl .ce, Schwarzenberg again allowed him.
| self some days Of rest,-principaily because
! the pl1ns hitherto adopted by him had exo
tended no. fur, her than Thu point. This
author Of the book before US holds that it