Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1876-1876
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...Jewett, for some time private assistant in chemistry to Professor Gibbs, of Harvard University, has been appointed Professor of Chemistry in the Imperial University of Japan...
...journey, of which this book is the journal, lasted from the first of July, 1875, to the first of June, 1876. The author started from Boston, crossed to San Francisco, thence to Japan, China, India, up the Red Sea to Cairo, from Alexandria to Italy, through France to England, and thence home. With praiseworthy judgment he devotes most of the volume to the countries less known, and but fifteen pages to Europe and its oft-described localities. We are surprised that any one could have passed so close to the shores of Greece without setting his foot upon the land...