1. Barnes, Earl and Mary S., Historical ideas and methods of Chinese education. _Studies in education_, I (1896-97), 112-118. 2. Carus, Paul, Chinese life and customs. 3. Davis, John Francis, The Chinese. 4. Doolittle, Justus, Sketches of social life in China. _Harper's Magazine_, XXXI (1865), 429-442. 5. Douglass, Robert K., China. 6. Flower, William Henry, Fashion in deformity. 7. Graves, Frank Pierrepont, A history of education, Before the Middle Ages. 8. Headland, Isaac Taylor, Home life in China. 9. Headland, Isaac Taylor, The Chinese boy and girl. 10. Laurie, S. S., Historical survey of pre-Christian education. 11. Lee, Yan Phou, When I was a boy in China. 12. Little, Mrs. Archibald, Intimate China. 13. Martin, W. A. P., The Chinese. 14. Martin, W. A. P., The lore of Cathay. 15. Smith, Arthur H., Chinese characteristics. 16. Smith, Arthur H., Village life in China. 17. Williams, S. Wells, The Middle Kingdom. CHAPTER VI THE CHILD IN JAPAN =Women.= Although women have always stood higher in Japan than in any other oriental country, yet they were much more highly considered in the early times than in the later times. There was no seclusion, they had a station in society, they shared in the recreations of their fathers and husbands, they possessed intellectual and physical vigor, they filled offices of state and religion; in fact, they ranked alongside of men as among the best nations of the earth. Among the rulers of Japan there have been nine empresses, the most noted having been Jingu and who led a conquering expedition into Corea about 200 A. D., from whence came letters, religion, and civilization into Japan. "Of one hundred and twenty-three Japanese sovereigns, nine have been women. The custodian of the divine regalia is a virgin priestess. The chief deity in their mythology is a woman. Japanese women, by their wit and genius, made their native tongue a literary language. In literature, art, poetry, song, the names of women are among the most brilliant of those on the long roll of fame and honor on whose brows the Japanese, at least, have placed the fadeless chaplet of renown. Their memory is still kept green by recitation, quotation, reading, and inscription on screen, roll, memorial-stone, wall, fan, cup, and those exquisite works of art that delight even alien admirers east and west of the Pacific.