=Kakemono.= Japanese sketches. By A. Herbage Edwards. With frontispiece. Cloth, 8vo, $1.75 net. =The Makers of Japan.= By J. Morris. With twenty-four illustrations. Large 8vo, $3.00 net. =McDonald of Oregon.= A Tale of Two Shores. The chronicle of the earliest Japanese refugees to land in America, and of the first Americans who visited Japan, later to act as interpreters to Perry. By Eva Emery Dye. Illustrated by W. J. Enright. 8vo, $1.50 A. C. McCLURG & CO. CHICAGO TRANSCRIBERS’ NOTES The Publisher’s Advertisement Page has been moved from the front to the end of the text. Different spellings of the same word have been standardized. In this text version, the following marking were used to indicate the original text styles: _italic_ and =bold=. Text originally printed in small caps has been converted to uppercase letters. The following typos and omissions have been changed in the text: Page 39: missing “b” added to: _blue hose, with brown weather-beaten faces_ Page 63: missing period added to: _and there was nothing else._ Page 115: “proscribed” changed to “prescribed”: _already bent to the prescribed curves for me_ Page 122: “ackowledged” changed to “acknowledged”: _dramatic instinct is acknowledged to be far below_ Page 125: “possibilites” changed to “possibilities”: _more possibilities than a rice-field_ Page 140: duplicate “in” removed from: _are washed in the softest of bark brown_ Page 151: “th” changed to “the”: _the position of the person serving_ Page 167: comma changed to period: _as the boys, lantern in hand, plunged downward._ Page 209: “capitials” changed to “capitals”: _stating in printed Roman capitals that_ Page 230: “ust” changed to “us”: _but he never told us why._ Page 230: “nor” changed to “not”: _that we could not read the Chinese_ Page 266: missing period added to: _Skoshi mo arimasen._ Page 295: missing period added to: _1542, d. 1616. The founder of the Tokugawa_ Page 300: missing period added to: _meaning the Eastern Capital._