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Memorabilia. one WE E have received from the Dai Nippon Yubenkwai Kodansha, Tokyo, an interesting booklet on Seiji Noma, the Magazine King" of Japan. He impresses his compatriots as a man of gigantic force, and the detail of what he has achieved gives not only justification for that impression, but proof, too, of practical originality. He publishes Japanese books and popular magazines, and the circulation of of his nine monthlies, the King, is said to reach a million and a half. In fact from 70 to 80 per cent. of the magazines sold throughout Japan are of his publishing. He is a most active promoter of and innovator in methods of advertising, a subject upon which he has encountered no little opposition. The author of the sketch informs us that Mr. Noma's methods of life and work are extraordinary. He entirely avoids his office; sleeps for the most part by day, or fences, and works by night; and possesses such powers of physical endurance that if need be he can go without sleep for a stretch of seventy-two hours. He is described as twice the size of the average Japanese, having eagle eyes, a large head and strong brows. His voice is soft, evidently simulated for a definite purpose," his diction polished, his manners ceremonious. America had been his first inspirer: he believed that the Japanese, whom he took to have an inexhaustible capacity for reading magazines," could be made to buy these by the million as the American public does, and the Japanese are justifying his belief. Behind his enterprise is the sense of a mission. His aim is the greatness of Japan, and by great ness he understands fidelity to the ancient ideals of the country, “ filial piety and loyalty to the Emperor." He started in life as a primary-school teacher, an experience which convinced him of the value in education of heroic stories, and accordingly it is largely by heroic stories that he seeks to influence the readers of his magazines. He finds fault with the Japanese youth of the present day for lack of zeal and spirit and ambition. Yet he is all on the side of the young, mindful of certain counsels once given him by the late Marquis Ozuma, and among his employees are more than 350 who are under twenty. Three principles, he professes, govern his conduct of business. They are Chinese conceptions, or, at any rate, Chinese in phrase : Konzen-ittai," which is "" one soul with diverse bodies, "that is, a sort of co-operation to the nth ; 66 Seijitsu-kinben," which is sincerity and perseverance"; and "Juwokoryo," which is initiative and hard-thinking. We gather that, in his dealing with authors, he has unusual sense of obligation. The copy " for the magazines is bought by the advice of a committee of appraisers, and the rates of pay for this are not only made to correspond to the character of the work and to circumstance, but also to the age of the contributor, there being a definite rule that the older the contributor the more he is paid. It is an interesting fact that this Japanese counterpart of many well-known personalities in Europe and America has no direct acquaintance with Western languages or civilization, being indebted for his own culture to the Chinese and Japanese classics. A leaflet gives some facts about magazine publishing in Japan, by which we learn that the country has about 400 magazine publishing houses. WE have received a copy of the Historical Play in commemoration of the bicentenary of the birth of Captain James Cook, composed by our correspondent Major J. Fairfax-Blakeborough, M.C., for the villages of Marton-in-Cleveland, where Cook was born, and Great Ayton, where he received his schooling. The scenes of the play show the cradle and the choice of the infant's name; learning to work on the farm and to read; Cook as a boy at Great Ayton; Cook's apprenticeship at Staithes; the volunteering for the Navy; the end. The early scenes, where Major Fairfax-Blakeborough uses the North Yorkshire dialect and into which he has introduced contemporary songs, seem to us the best. Among the objects to which |