Littell's Living Age/Volume 130/Issue 1674/Miscellany

Last year there were published in Japan two new daily, four weekly, and one monthly periodicals; one novel; one dictionary; one geography, grammar, and history combined; and a number of official statements, the latter actually bound in blue. The land of blue dragons takes now to blue books!

Athenæum.


Newspapers continue to multiply even in the most outlandish localities. We hear that "Corea has started a newspaper." It is styled "pious and official, and which all ought to read."

Athenæum.