Complete Course of Japanese Conversation Grammar by Oreste Vaccari, Mrs. Enko Elisa VaccariJ. B. Kraus

This book deserves a place in a Review devoted to the study of Japanese Culture. One of the great draw-backs in appreciating the cultural achievements of Japan lies in the difficulty of the language. The two volumes of Mr. and Mrs. Vaccari offer a complete course of conversational Japanese which has distinct advantages over other books on the field of the language published hitherto. Plenty of tutorial psychology and experience has been embodied in those sixty lessons and the book may well boast of “having humanized” to a large extent the arduous work of studying such a complicated language as Japanese. Many questions are answered before the student hits on them. The vocabularies attached to each lesson deserve special praise for their practical nature, supplying just the stock of words mostly wanted in every-day life.