. Japan's inheritance, the country, its people, and their destiny . A SUMMER SCENE, CENTRAL A DIAGNOSIS—BY A DOCTOR OK THE OLD SCHOOL. To face p. 54. Times and Seasons dog-days, troubles descend by way of the river-beds upon highlands and lowlands alike, andthe discomfited clerks of the weather in theTokyo Observatory would fain confess themselvesno better than the rustics who say it will be finewhen the tombi (kite) cries of an evening, andwet when a crow washes his plumes in runningwater. In drawing attention to its eccentricities,I have given, I fear, a somewhat unfavourable,almost
. Japan's inheritance, the country, its people, and their destiny . A SUMMER SCENE, CENTRAL A DIAGNOSIS—BY A DOCTOR OK THE OLD SCHOOL. To face p. 54. Times and Seasons dog-days, troubles descend by way of the river-beds upon highlands and lowlands alike, andthe discomfited clerks of the weather in theTokyo Observatory would fain confess themselvesno better than the rustics who say it will be finewhen the tombi (kite) cries of an evening, andwet when a crow washes his plumes in runningwater. In drawing attention to its eccentricities,I have given, I fear, a somewhat unfavourable,almost alarming, account of the Japanese , let none condemn it as unhealthyor severe. Even in the most unsettled seasonsthere is no month which has not its beautifuldays, and there is no month in which the con-ditions put an excessive strain upon a healthyEuropean constitution. Medical men declare itto be specially good for children, but not, onthe whole, for ladies, whom it is said to affectwith nerves. As a similar complaint has beenmade of the Far East in general, the blamesho
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