The every-day book

Author(s)

• Hone, William

Bibliographic Information

The every-day book

by William Hone

EPM, 2013

• : set
• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3
• v. 4

Other Title

The every-day book : or, Everlasting calendar of popular amusements, sports, pastimes, ceremonies, manners, customs, and events, incident to each of the three hundred and sixty-five days, in past and present times; forming a complete history of the year, months, & seasons, and a perpetual key to the almanack; including accounts of the weather, rules for health and conduct, remarkable and important anecdotes, facts, and notices, in chronology, antiquities, topography, biography, natural history, art, science, and general literature; derived from the most authentic sources, and valuable original communications, with poetical elucidations, for daily use and diversion

Note

Reprint. Originally published: London : Hunt and Clarke, 1826-1827

Vol. 1. January-June 1826 -- v. 2. July-December 1826 -- v. 3. January-June 1827 -- v. 4. July-December 1827

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Published by EPM in Japan and distributed by Routledge outside of Japan A facsimile reprint of the 1826-27 edition of The Every-Day Book, the successful year book by William Hone, a renowned nineteenth-century British publisher/bookseller, as well as a writer and satirist. With many illustrations the publication shows us vividly English life in each season throughout the year. A useful reference tool for any institutions with courses of English and Nineteenth-Century Studies.

Table of Contents

cONTENTS (Sample articles from the 1890 issues) A Dictionary of Japanese Law Terms A Much-married Man Affairs in Korea Amalgamation of Political Parties Asiatic Society of Japan Changes in Local Government Count Itagaki's Political Influence Cruelty to Animals in Japan Education in 1889 Inauguration of the Leper Hospital at Koyama Japan Becoming Famous Japan in Their Dealings with Foreigners Japanese Emigration to Hawaii Japanese Foreign Trade in 1889 Kano Hogai M. Boissonade's Reply to the Objectors Maruyama Okyo Messrs. Shibusawa and Iwasaki Missions in Japan Mr. Lowder and Treaty Revision Mr. Osaki Yukio and the New Cabinet Mr. Sonoda Kokichi on British Trade New Edition of "The Light of Asia" Nippon Onagaku Kwai Postal Saving Banks in Japan Professor E. Fenollossa Professor Toyama on Current Educational Methods Proposed Honours to the Pioneers of Western Learning Pugilistic Females Railways in Japan Red Cross Society of Japan Religious Government in Japan Reminiscences of a Japanese Art Studio of Former Days Rice Silk in 1889 Sir Edwin Arnold and the Satsuma Rebellion Subsidy to Tea Exporters The "Aikoku-koto" Party The "Kirin" Beer at the Industrial Exhibition The "Kokumin-no-Tomo" The 11th National Bank and the Mitsubishi The Bank of Japan and the Present Financial Depression The Bible of the Church The Complete Bible in Japanese The Famine Relief Funds The Influenza Epidemic The Japanese in California The Japanese in Korea The Koto Chiu Gakko Affair The Meiji Art Association The Nationalistic Movement in Japan The New Journalism The Other Side of the Treaty Negotiations with Japan The Photograph Family The Photographic Society of Japan The Progress of Science during the Past Twenty Years The Question of Prostitution The Riukiu Islands The Seismological Society of Japan The Stock Market The Tendency of Japanese Christianity The Third National Exhibition The Yokosuka Outrage The Yotsuya Ghost Watanabe Kazan Yokohama Literary Society etc.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BB14184718
• ISBN:
  • 9784905211044
• Country Code: ja
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Kyoto
• Pages/Volumes: 4 v. (viii, 1719, 1712 p.)
• Size: 22 cm