. Review of reviews and world's work. ized is the pride andboasting of the Japanese professors and is not fair, this writer claims, to pick out afault which is found also among Western peo-ples and to emphasize it as though it were adominant trait of Japanese life. Japanese teach-ers, he declares, have the truly scientific spiritin as large a measure as have teacliers in anyother countrv of the world. Forinerlv. it was not supposed tliat the Oriental mind was so con-stituted as to be able to apply itself successfullyto higher matliematics. Professor Miwa con-tradicts this statement
. Review of reviews and world's work. ized is the pride andboasting of the Japanese professors and is not fair, this writer claims, to pick out afault which is found also among Western peo-ples and to emphasize it as though it were adominant trait of Japanese life. Japanese teach-ers, he declares, have the truly scientific spiritin as large a measure as have teacliers in anyother countrv of the world. Forinerlv. it was not supposed tliat the Oriental mind was so con-stituted as to be able to apply itself successfullyto higher matliematics. Professor Miwa con-tradicts this statement. ()f course, the mathe-matical j)ioficiency of tlie Hindus in the veryhighest branches is now a matter of commonknowledge. This Japanese writer informs usthat generations ago the science of mathemat-ics was cultivated in China and Japan. For gen-erations, both the Chinese and the Japanese, hedeclares, have known the ellipse and the parab-ola, and to day the Japanese are well versed evenin Occidental iiiatluMnatical syml)()ls. .Among. THE FACULTY OF THE WASEDA UNIVERSITY, TOKIO, ., BY HIOENOBU OK17MA. (Some of the noteworthy indi\iduals are indicated in the picture by tlie following numbers: 1, K. Hatoyama, president ofthe university ; 5. K. Fuji-i, professor of moral science: 7. T. Inoue, professor of economy; 9, Baron Maejima, founderof the postal system of Japan ; , Y. Motora, eminent psychologist; 16, W. Kaneko, professor of the science of educa-tion ; 19, J. Soeda, president of the Industrial Bank; 30, the late Lafcadio Hearn ; , T. Yokoi, professor of agricul-ture ; 26,1. Iwaya. famous author of juvenile novels; 27, Rev. D. Yebina, famous Christian preacher; 28, S. Uchigasaki,professor of English literature.) 02 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI^IEIV OF REyiElVS. those who have doue high-grade original woikin this line, he mentions Professor Kujisawa,who studied in Germany under the famous Kro-necker. Professor Fujisawa has published alearned work on Th
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