Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . he palace was a billiard-room, and here everymorning would come tradesmen from the bazaars of Tokio, withcloths and armor and swords and all manner of curious thingsto sell or to show. The hour after breakfast was our hour of This, said the emotional younglady, as she mov-ed away
Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . he palace was a billiard-room, and here everymorning would come tradesmen from the bazaars of Tokio, withcloths and armor and swords and all manner of curious thingsto sell or to show. The hour after breakfast was our hour of This, said the emotional younglady, as she mov-ed away fromthe piano whileMoore was sins:-ing one of hislove-songs, thisis not for thegood of my used to thinkof this story whenI went into thebilliard- roomafter breakfast tosee the fresh in-voices from thebazaars. Whata world of art andof beauty and oftaste has beencreated by thegenius of Japan!Here is a scroll ofsilk on which the artist, with a few daring lines, has drawn a his-tory or a poem. Here is a morsel of bronze not much largerthan a dollar. It was formerly a sword ornament, and looks likea trifle until you closely examine it and see the fine touches—asunrise, a volcano, a flight of storks in the air, sea or stream, alltold on the smallest space, with touches of silver or gold. Some-. THE BILLIARD-ROOM AT EXRIOKWAN. 5S5 times we had collections of toys and dolls, for Japan is the para-dise of children, and in nothing does the genius of the peopleassert itself with more sincerity than in devising pleasures for thelittle people. There is something tangible in f apanese toys. Themonkeys have real hair, and you can wool the dogs about )- the cats without seeing them unravel over the nurseryfloor. And the dolls! You take an assortment of dolls athome, and they seem to have been cast in the same look alike, they have no expression—the faces are dead,dull, flabby ; it will be a mercy if they have noses or ears ; andthe only way the boys can be told fr
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