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will be gradually extended. We should not find fault with Japan, because in only a few years she has not leaped into the enjoyment of political privileges which the English and American people obtained only after centuries of slow and often bloody development; but we should congratulate Japan, because by peaceful measures she has gradually removed herself entirely out of the pale of Oriental absolutism, beyond even despotic Russia, and may be classed with her model, Germany.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Especially helpful are Iyenaga's "Constitutional Development of Japan," Wigmore's articles in the "Nation," and several papers in the Transactions Asiatic Society of Japan. See also the author's "Local Self-Government in Japan" in the "Political Science Quarterly" for June, 1892, and "A Japanese State Legislature" in the "Nation" for February 27, 1890. On the subject of Formosa, besides Davidson's book already mentioned, see chap. xiv. of Ransome's "Japan in Transition," pp. 167, 169, of Diosy's "New Far East," and Takekoshi's "Japanese Rule in Formosa."


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