In compliance with numerous requests from all sides for a companion work, in the form of a Japanese Reader, to Hossfeld s Japanese Grammar and the Appendix thereto, I have the satisfaction of offering the present little volume; for, although the Appendix was supplemented by some twenty-three pages of select readings the space then at disposal only permitted of a very limited range of subjects. In the volume now presented I have had a wider scope and as every writer has some peculiarities of his own, independently of the subjects, recourse has been had to works of a great many authors, so that the book may be thoroughly representative of the best part of Japanese literature, whilst exhibiting to the student at the same time many different styles of composition, and the greatest pains have been taken to exclude, not only every sentence, but even every word that might offend the most fastidious ear.
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