...Donald Keene BOOK REVIEWS 345 service and familiarity with all relevant documents to write a stimulating and readable account of the purge in operation and its immediate impact. Within limited space he combines adequate factual description with a commendable ability to raise most of the moral...

...Donald Keene Ages Ago. Thirty-Seven Tales from the Konjaku Monogatari Collection . Translated by S. W. Jones . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1959 . xix , 175 . Notes, Bibliography. $4.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 110 JOURNAL...

...Donald Keene The Heart Is Alone . A Selection of 20th Century Japanese Short Stories. Ed. Richard N. McKinnon . Tokyo : The Hokuseido Press , 1957 . 171 . $2.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 630 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES inaptly of Jane Austen...

...Donald Keene Abstract Japanese literature of the war years (1941–45) has hardly been discussed abroad, and in Japan the tendency, until very recently, was to dismiss the entire production as “sterile,” or even to deny that any existed. Obviously more than strictly literary criteria have occasioned...

...Donald Keene The Japanese Enlightenment; A Study of the Writings of Fukuzawa Yukichi . By Carmen Blacker . Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press , 1964 . xii, 185 . Notes; Bibliography; Glossary; Index; Plates. $6.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965...

...Marius B. Jansen; Donald Keene; Arthur F. Wright Abstract Sir George Bailey Sansom, who died on March 8 in Tucson, Arizona, at the age of 82, was the last of the great amateurs and first among professional students of Japan in the Western world. Like Aston, Satow and Eliot, earlier pioneers...

...Donald Keene Revolution and Cosmopolitanism: The Western Stage and the Chinese Stages . By Joseph R. Levenson . With a Foreword by Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Berkeley : The University of California Press , 1971 . xxxi, 64 pp. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...D. L. Keene Tsurezure-gusa shinkō . (New Lectures on the Tsurezure-gusa ) By Sano Yasutaro Tokyo , Fukumura Shoten , 1947 . 11 + 604 + 75 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 392 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY mendations under the numerous chapter headings...

...D. L. Keene To Ho shiki . (Private record of Tu Fu). Volume 1 . By Yoshikawa Kōjirō . Tokyo : Chikuma Shobō , 1950 . 306 p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953 1953 1 Reviewed in FEQ, 12 (February 1953), 214–217. BOOK REVIEWS 427 the complexity...

...D. L. Keene New Life Korean-English Dictionary . (American Edition). Edited by Hyungki J. Lew . Washington : Educational Services , 1952 . 866 . New Life English-Korean Dictionary . (American Edition). Edited by Hyungki J. Lew . Washington : Educational Services , 1952 . 1301...

...D. L. Keene Shintei Heian-chō bungaku-shi . (A history of Heian literature, newly revised). By Igarashi Chikara . Tokyo : Tōkyō-dō , 1950 . 2 vols., 17 + 462 + 8 p. and 14 + 506 + 10 p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953 1953 362 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY...

...Donald Keene Indiana University Conference on Oriental-Western Literary Relations . Ed. Horst Frenz and G. L. Anderson . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1955 . xii, 241 . $4.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 1 See...

...Donald Keene The Japanese Haiku . By Kenneth Yasuda . Tokyo : Tuttle , 1957 . xx, 232 . $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 632 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES La porte itroite for example, with Natsume's views on self-righteousness taking the place...

...D. L. Keene Jōdai bungaku shi . (A history of ancient literature). By Sasaki Nobutsuna . Tokyo : Tokyodo , 1950 . 2 vols. iv + vi + 412 + 22 p.; iii + viii + 508 + 27 p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 492 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY on the value...

...Sarah Keene Meltzoff Prehistory in the Pacific Islands: A Study of Variation in Language, Customs, and Human Biology . By John Terrel . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1986 . Illustrations, Tables, References, Author Index, Subject Index. N.p. Copyright © The Association...

... produced during the past two millennia, and when we consider the voluminous biographical output and the keen popular interest in biography in twentieth-century China. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 1 Hu Shih's preface to Hsiao-jo Chang , Nan-t'ung...

... anything very original to say in the seventeenth century. But the more we study seventeenth-century thought, the more we recognize that Huang Zongxi's forte was less in originality than in a keen awareness, examination, and articulation of issues that were current in his time. The perpetuation of notions...

... and by the end of the decade had become keen. The large corps of well-trained, scientifically minded Dutch officials sent forth a steadily increasing number of excellent studies on various phases of Indies life. Obviously, it is impossible to review the entire field of this literature; only the more significant...

... mature outlook on human life. He combined, without internal conflict, religious devotion and scientific scholarship; while with all his keenness of mind and scientific objectivity he was persistently concerned in generous and kindly relations with individual persons. In achievement he was an effective...

... as businessmen and newspaper columnists have shown a keen desire for more information and factual data regarding the peoples of this little-known portion of the Orient. To meet this demand books have been published in America and Europe which have brought to the consciousness of the people of this hemisphere...