. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. o do in the mat-ter of tempering the characters of the sexes. Only in co-education of the sexes can we secure both ends at once :the cultivation of their intellects and the harmonizing of 2i6 Nine Years m Nipon. their characters, ... the saucy mischlevousness ofthe boys will be tempered by the gentle politeness of thegirls, and the vain fancy and timid weakness of the girlswill take on the primitive simplicity and determinedsteadiness of the boys ; and, at last, a moderate, accom-plished, and unblemished virtue and culture will be a
. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. o do in the mat-ter of tempering the characters of the sexes. Only in co-education of the sexes can we secure both ends at once :the cultivation of their intellects and the harmonizing of 2i6 Nine Years m Nipon. their characters, ... the saucy mischlevousness ofthe boys will be tempered by the gentle politeness of thegirls, and the vain fancy and timid weakness of the girlswill take on the primitive simplicity and determinedsteadiness of the boys ; and, at last, a moderate, accom-plished, and unblemished virtue and culture will be attain-ed by both the sexes. He goes on to deal with the objection that evils mayarise from the joint education of boys and girls, and hum-orously meets the case by the example of two countrypeople who caught a pair of young foxes. One of thembrought up his amongst the barn-door fowls, and it neverdid them any harm, while the other timorously kept hispoultry out of his young pupils sight, with the worstresults in the end. The Land of Neglected Education. 217. CHAPTER XVIII. A Glimpse of the Land of Neglected Education. The Carlyle and Thackeray of Japan—Bakins Idea of the Genuine Gentle-man—Geography of the Land—The Natives and their Strange Ways—Bad Schoolboys in Japan—Apprenticeship—Coddling and its Conse-quences—A Family Scene—Breaking the Indentures—On the Streets—Moral. Y favourite Japanese author, Takizawa Sakichi—at once the Carlyle and Thackeray of Japan—better known by his nom-de-plume of Bakin,published the work from which the followingextracts are translated, in 1809-10. It is basedon an older story of mystical adventure likeSinbad the Sailor., and is a powerful andclever satire on the manners of the authors countrymenat the beginning of this century. The following is partof a translation which I contributed to the Chrysanthemu7na few years ago, and has probably been seen only by avery few in this country. I had hoped ere this to haveissued a c
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