LIST 4

Hokuseido English Text-Books

(HigheT C;T，αde Schools)

.E:Y .AEうJ 1931 吋三当、 、そ三込

FALL NUMBER

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定慣

Aldrieh，空'homaBaily The Story of a Bad Boy ... ... ... ... ... .80

AlI.. Menzieo Science of Religion ... .(0

American Short Stories…... 1.20 Amie1s Journals -・・ ・・・ ・・・ ・・・ 1.00 Andreie'宣

Si1ence ・ 20 AntoD Tchehov

Selections from Anton Tchehov 1. 11. ... 各 1.80Arnold， Matthew

Selections from Matthew Arnold 1.ω ATebury， L01・d

The Use of Life ... ... ... ... -・・ ・・・ .50 Bennett， A'伺 old

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day ... ... .80 British Short Stories ... ... ... ... 1.20 Browning

The Other Half-Rome ... ... ... ... ... ... .20 Bryce and 1沌CO'JI

Democracy and Public Opinion … 1.00 Burnett， France. HodgBon

Little Lord Fauntleroy……………… 1.00 Carlyle，空'homcu

Mahomet -・・ ・・・ ・・・ ... ... ... ... .25 Martin Luther -・・ .. . .. . -・・ ・・・ .25

Chesterton The Defendant ・ ... ... .20

Choice Novelettes ... ... -・・ 1.ω Conan Doyle

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes -・・ ・・. ... .80

Conrad, Joseph, Selections from Joseph Conrad ... ... ... . .. 1.00 Warrior's Soul ... . .. . .. . .. ... . .. .28

Contemporary One-Act Plays ... . . . . .. 1.00 Contemporary Short Stories ... ••• 1.00 Critical and Miscellaneous Writings ... . .. 1.00 Culture and Life ••• ... . .. . .. . .. . .. .80 Dean loge

Select Essays of Dean lnge and Principal Jacks 1.28 De Q•ineey

Confessions of Opium-Eater . . . . . . . . . . .. The English Mail-Coach and Other Writings My Adventures in Lopdon

Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol ..• ... ..• . .• The Cricket on the Hearth . . . . .. Tales from Charles Dickens

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The Fathers of Philosophy and Science ... ..• 1.80 Ed«ar Allan Poe

Selections from Edgar Allan Poe . . . . . . . . . . .. Eliot, George

Silas Marner ..• ..• .•• ... . .. ... . .. Ethics for Young People . . • .. . . .. ... Emile Souveatre

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An Attic Philosopher in Paris . . . . . . 1.00 English Poems in the Last Three Centuries . . . . . . • 70 English Prose .. . .. . . . . . . . .. . ..• .60 English Verses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. 00 Essays on Modern Problems .. . ... ... ..• 1.20 Extract from Shakespeare ... ... ... ..• 1.50 Five Best Stories . . • .. • .•• .. • . . . . . • .. . .80 Five Short Plays ••• ..• •.• .. . ... .. . •.• ••• .60 Gala worthy, Joh'lt

Selections from John Galsworthy . . . . . • . .. Virtue and Other Stories . . . . . . . . • . • • · .•

1.00 .20

Gardiner Seven Great Men of To-day ••• . .. ... . .. .60

Gaskell

The Sexton's Hero and Other Tales ... . .. .80 George Gissing

Selections from George Gissing .... . . . ... . .. .70 Sleeping Fires ... . .. . .. ... . .. . .. . .. .80

Glimpses of Modern English Critics ... ... ... .50 Goldamith

Vicar of Wakefield ••• ••• ••• • •• ••• ••• . .. r.oo Citizen of the World ••• ••• . .. ••• . .. • •• .80

Gorky

Twenty-Six Men and a Girl ••• • •• ••• • •• .20 Half Hours with Modern Writers ... ••• ••• ••• .60 Hamerton

Intellectual Life ... ••• • •• • •• • •• • •• ••• • •• .60 Hardy, Thoma•

Son's Veto and Other Tales ... ... ... . .. .60 Selections from Thomas Hardy: Tales and

Poems ••• • •• • •• • •• . .. . .. ... . .. 1.00 Allicias Diary ••• ••• • •• . .. ... • •• • •• .20 Three Strangers ••• ... ... • •• • •• ••• • •• .20

Hawthorne Selections from Hawthorne , .. ••• • •• ••• ••• .60

Helps's Essays ... ••• ••• ••• • •• ... • •• • •• ••• .50 B. G. Wella

Character of Napoleon Bonaparte ... ... . .. .35 Country of· the Blind and the Door in the Wall .35 Making of Man ... • •• . .. 1.00 World before Man ••• ••• .. .. ••• ... ... 1.00

Hiiher Intelligences ••• ••• • •• ••• .. . ... 1.00 Hughe1, Thomas

Tom Brown's School Days ... ••• ... ... ... 1.00 Introduction to English Poetry ... ... ... ... ••• 1.00 Irvinar;, Washington

Rip Van Winkle and Other Sketches ... ... 1.00

Jaek London Call of the Wild ••• • •• • •• ... . .. . .. 1.00 Selections from Jack London ••• .90

Jerome K. Jerome

Three Men in a Boat ... .. . ... . .. .so The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow ••• ••• .60

Katherine Mansfield Selectiona from Katherine Mansfield ••• • •• 1.00

Kipling "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" and Red Doa ••• ••• ••• .20

Lamb, · Charlea Rosamund Gray and Selected Poems ... ••• .60 Essays of Elia ••• ••• • •• ••• • •• . .. • •• . .. .25 Tales of Shakespeare ••• ••• • •• ... • •• . .. .50

Lee, Frank H. English Country Calendar ••• ••• . .. ... . .. 1.30 A London Chronicle ••• ••• • •• ... ... 1.50 Practical English Conversation ... ••• ••• .60

Life and Humanity ..• ••• ••• • •• ••• ... • •• .60 Literary Prose ••• ••• • •• . .. ... . .. ... ... .80 Little Masterpieces of Ten Great Dramatists ••• 1.30 Lure of the Sea ... . .. .. . . .. ... ... 1.00 Lyrical Poems of England ... ... .... ... ... • •• .30 Max O'Rell

Jonathan and His Continent ... ... ... ••• .60 Marden

How to Get What You Want ... ... ... .50 Mill, John Stuart

On Liberty ... ••• ••• ••• . ... . .. ... ... • •• 1.20 Milton

Comus and Lycidas ••• • •• • •• . .. ••• • •• .40 Mitford, Mary RusaeU

Our Village ... ••• ••• ••• ••• ... ... ••• 1.20 Miscellany of Typical Prose ... . .. ... ... ... .50 Modern Masterpieces of Autobiography ... ••• • •• 1.00

Morton London Sketches ... . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. .25

0. Henry 0. Henry : Best Short Stories ••• ... 1.00

Oscar Wilde De Profundis ... . .. ... ... ••• • •• . .. . .. 1.00 Happy Prince and Other Tales ... ••• ... . .. .50 Model Millionaire and Other Stories ... .40 Pen, Pencil and Poison and Other Essays 1.00 Soul of Man ... ... . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. .50 The English Renaissance of Art ••• . .. . .. .20

Poems on Evening and Night ••• ••• • •• • •• . .. 1.50 Randall

Coming World Unity ••• ••• • •• • •• • •• . .. .20 Readings in Modern Sports ..• ••• ••• • •• . .. • •• 1.00 Representative Modern Essays ••• • •• ••• • •• .80 Royce

The Essence of Modern Idealism ••• • •• . .. 1.00 Ruskin, JciAn

Unto This Last and Poems ..• ... • •• ... . .. 1.00 Scientific Readings ''BIOLOGICft:L'' ... ... . .. 1.20 Scientific Readings "PHYSICAL" •• • • •• • •• ... 1.20 Schepeahauer

Wisdom and Life ••• • •• • •• • •• • •• ... ... 1.00 Scett

Quentin Durward ••• ••• • •• . .. ••• . .. 1.20 Select Pieces from Eminent Authors .. . ... .60 Social Evolution ... ... . .. ... ... .80 Social Life, Moral Ideas and ... ... . .. ... .80 Social Problems ••• ••• ••• • •• • •• . .. ••• ... .88 Steyeuon, R. L.

Five Short Stories ••• ••• ••• • •• • •• . .. . .. 1.00 Francois Villon ..• ••• ••• • •• • •• • •• • •• . .. .50 Olalla ... ... . .. . .. . .. ••• ••• ... ... ... .38 The Pavilion on the Links ... ... ... .50 The Rajah's Diamond ••• ••• • •• • •• . .. ... .50

Talk and Talkers ... ... ... . .. . .. .20 Virginibus Puerisque ... . .. ... .25

Swinton Studies in English Literature ... ... 2.00

Tagore, Rabindranatk

Selections from Rabindranath Tagore 1.00 Tales of Terror and Mystery ... . .. ... ... . .. .70 Tennyson

Enoch Arden and Locksley Hall ••• ... . .. .25 . Thoreau

Essays of H. D. Thoreau .. . ••• . .. ... .50 Twelve Best Short Stories ... . .. ... 1.00 Two Critical Essays ... ... . .. ... . .. .60 Walter Pater

Selections from Walter Pater ... ... ... 1.00

COMPOSITION

English Composition for Advanced Students, I. II. -1- • 70 Hanazono' s English Composition . . . . . . . . . . . . • 70 Tomita's Higher English Composition, I. II. .. . . .. a. .90

CHEAP EDITIONS

Character of Napoleon Bonaparte ( WeUs) •• • • •• • ••

Country of the Blind and the Door in the Wall (Wells)

Coming World Unity (RandaU) ••• ••• ••• • ••

Defendant, The (Chesterton) . • • • • • • • • • • • • .•

Enoch Arden and Locksley Hall (Tennyson) •••

Essays of Elia (Lamb) ••• ••• •• • • ••

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.25 London Sketches (Morton) ••• ••• • ••

Lyrical Poems of England •. • . .. Mahomet (Carlyle) • • • • • • •• • • ••

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Martin Luther (Carlyle) • • • ••• • •• My Adventure in London (De Quincey) Olalla (Stevenson) •• • •• • •• • ••• • .•

Other Half-Rome, The (Browning)

... ... .25 .25 .20 .20

Renaissance of Art, The English (Wilde) ... "Rikki-Tikki·Tavi" and Red Dog (Kipling) ... Science of Religion (Allan Menzies) ... Selections from Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Silence (Andreieff) •.• ••• ••• ••• •.• . •• Talk and Talkers (Stevenson) ••• ••• ••• • ••

Three Strangers (Hardy) ••• ••• ••• ••• • ••

Twenty-Six-Men and a Girl (Gorky) ... Virginibus Puerisque (Stevenson) ... ... . ..

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..• ..• ... .20 Virtue and Other Stories (GGlaworthy)

Warrior's Soul ( Co.rad) • • • •• • • • • • . • • •• ..• ... .20

It ft II 111

Literary Taste ..• .•• ••• ..• ..• ..• ••• ••• ..• .50 Best Novelettes of To-day ..• ..• ..• ..• ... ... 1.00 D. H. Lawrence, and Other Contemporary Writers .90 Peter Schlemihl, The Shadowless Man ... ... ... .60 Two Famous Plays of To-day (Escape & Mrs. Fraser) 1.20 On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History .80 Representative Short Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Epistemology and Ontology (William jerusalem) .•• .50 Chivalry and Sportsmanship (Thomas Lyell) ..• ••• ill ftJ Little Gems of English Poetry ... .50 Great Modern One-Act Plays ... ill TIJ Great Modern Short Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J& fd

THE POLE STAR LIBRARY

The Outstation (W. Somerset Maugham) ••• The Tarn and Lois Drake (Hugh Walpole) ••• • •• Selected Essays from John Dewey ..• . .• Three Tales from Hawthorne... ..• ... ..• . .. The Waiting Supper . . • . . • . . . . . • . . . . . • . .. Selected Essays from Galsworthy . . . . . • .. • . .. The Apple-Tree (John Galsworthy) • • • •• • • • • • • • Alicias Diary (Thomas Hardy) • • • • • • Industry and Amenities of 2030 (Birkenhead) •• • Westminster Abbey and the Spectre Bridegroom Cotton Mill . . . . . . · · · Talk on Medicine . . . . .. Scientific Adventures ... . .. ... . ..

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て〉、 LAFCADIOHEARN SERIESペ3'

Life and Literature . ••• ••• 1.20 Stories and Sketches 1.30 Lands and Seas… -・・ ••• ••• ••• 1.50 Poe旬 andPoems ••• ••• ••• 1.50 Japan and the Japanese … ••• 1.50 、

Romance and Reason ••• -・・ 1.30 Facts and Fancies -・・ -・・ ・・・ ••• 1.20

猶lまHeamの Historyof English Literature (縮刷版)￥&∞及

Lectures on Shakespeare￥1.80等た数科用l二御希望の節lt印刷の

都合が御座いますから前以てー慮御照合願ぴ?こう存じます。

Irom “CChe aJookman" London

THE HOKUSEIDO PRESS issues出esevolumes

of Hearn， 1 understand， without the usual motive for publishing-a profit; in honour

of him rather， and towards the completion of a genera1 idea of his works. They are

evidences of the progress of Japanese

book-production on Western lines; 血e

printing， with its American characteristics， is sound， and in the present volume es-

pecially it is handsome. Few misprints

have been allowed to slip by.

Slang， Phrase and Idiom a in Colloquial English ! き By 聞，、i Thomas R. G. Lyell 高

1.英語を教へ乍ら疑問の Slang，Phraseに出合し?こ時、

2.英米現代作家の作品を護みつミある主き難解のSlang， Phraseにぶつかったとき

遁嘗に質問すぺき西洋人もな〈、種々の英語辞典を調ぺても分らない時、お困りの事はゐりませんでしたか、本書によりて始めてその不便を一掃し、疑問の Slangに封し満足な解答を奥へて〈れますo

Ifiir世界大験民英語に於げる E常置の位置を全然-IILた。新俗語、新熟

語'"1:輩出し、卑俗其所在改めれものも極めて多い。 本書lt凡て英等の新語

た絹癒し、蔵する腕の凡ゆる日常語、弟語につきて其最近の位置〈遁俗、卑

俗、親密、文語的〉た明示し以て日常語使用についての指針た提供する。 街

々の場合如何怠る寝旬を伎ふべきかまれ此置は目常語と Lて使用 Lて失語

に曽らざるか寄か或はま7こζん怠場合白銀鼠まひ表L方は如何某種の最

近の日常語l二関する明確な4寄る求めんとする込のi二ft必ず無くてはならな

い僻典である。

雌V 従前の此積の情事典にして英米爾閤lこ於て夜行ぜられれものは多いが、

何れも大臓を賓と Lて古物の域に置き去られ、叉漢に英米岡人以外の外国人

の必要求むる所た考慮して編纂ぜられれ込のがなかっ氏。?こめに或多数の

言葉t1:其等編纂者の限から筒車lこして所蔵の必要なしとして省略されれが

然か弘俗題ほど怠味の捕捉L1縫いものな〈、彼等lこ取って簡車に見えても

漢籍日本人がその昆の怠味を語"鑓い冒藁が多量あった。 其俵勲を捕はん

とLたのが本書の主怠る目的の一つである。

踊F 本書iま憶する既の凡ゆる日常信に劃Lて充分怠る用鋼並にアタセシ

ト・4ントネーシオシを奥へ、以て其意味の完全なる抱強と且つ貧際英米人

@聞に周ゐられ居る自由に Lて自然なる日常語の研究及び練習を欲する人

のため巳充分怠る材訴を供給する。 二れ亦他i二類や見ざる本僻典の特徴と

する所である。

創...説明'"1:明快にして劃切、而かも精しきに遁ぎ?簡単に失ぜ?、教師、

層住生、外交官、海外放行者、貸業家英他外人と接鯛する鷲紳士の何れの士も

必ず携ふぺく、 活きれ英語、自然の英語、最新の英鷲lこ闘する知識と練習

の材料込奥ふる唯一の裏書である。

English Slang, Phrases and Their Use Today Thomas Lyell's Dictionary of Colloquial English

Reyiewed by John H. Burbank

Frtnt~ "Japan Advertiser"

During the last two years Mr. Lyell has led a life of almost hermit seclusion in Tokyo, but those of us who know his energy, and have heard him talk about his work, will not be surprised that he has to show for these years a work of really sound scholarship and-more than one can say about many scholarly books -of great practical use. His "Slang, Phrase and Idiom in Colloquial English .and Their Use," published only a few weeks ago in Tokyo, has already run through its first edition, and the second is first dis­appearing from the bookstalls. It would seem that a book of this kind has been eagerly awaited by everyone, and particularly by the foreign student of English.

There are, of course, other colloquial dictionaries that explain the meanings of colloquial expressions, but no other that furnishes a satisfactory record of colloquial English as it is heard in this post-war age. The problems of when and how a particular expression should be used are the particular bugbears of the foreign student, and often cause even the native speaker to commit a conversational "faux pas." Yet the pre-existing diction­aries give little help in the first of these difficulties and none at all in the second. It is in these important respects that the new dictionary is already supplying a lollifelt want.

Needs of Student

One may well ask : How is it that these very obvious needs of the native English speaker and of the foreign student should have remained un­heeded for so long ? The answer lies in the fact that it is only in rela­tively recent years that any considerable academic importance has been attached to the acquisition of the colloquial. Nowadays there is a move­ment to exaggerate its claims to the prime place in foreign language study, in strong contrast to the method of the pre-war foreign student, who avoided the peculiar difficulties of informal English by confining his attention to the formal language, at any rate until he had learned to speak the language tolerably well.

The modem student, on the other hand, who has been persuaded to reverse the process, often enough finds himself helpless against difficulties which are uncharted in any of the existing grammars or dictionaries. The reaction, for example, of an irate English colonel on being addressed by a young man in a manner that would be suitable for a youthful companion, or a small boy, is not calculated to inspire confidence. It is against similar mistakes to this, which may be heard every day, that Mr. Lyell's dictionary should prove indispensable.

It must be admired however that this is not primarily a book of con­versational etiquette, and that it cannot be expected to solve all the diffi­culties the student is likely to meet. To do so would require a book devoted solely to this purpose, and this has yet to be written.

The difficulties of usage are even more perplexing than those arising from special situations. The examples in Mr. Lyell's book are designed to show the appropriate usage of each expression as well as, in the most direct fashion, the meaning. They give evidence of a literary imagination for in-

telligent and forceful dialogue which is as unexpected as it is refreshing in a dictionary. Yet many of these colloquialisms have entered the popular vocabulary as a direct result of the last war. They are not yet part of the logical structure of the language, and one feels they would yield to no other treatment than the one practised here.

Adventurinar Amon.r Words In his Introduction the author reminds us of the joy of adventunna

among words. It is clear that he himself is no mean adventurer, for he evidently enjoys choosing appropriate dress for the wealth of colloquialisms recorded, and has managed to make most examples illustrative of some Anglo-Saxon trait. The psychological interest, besides making the acquisition of the colloquialisms more interesting, is an aid to memory ; so that these examples are interesting reading as well as good teaching-a rare combina­tion. at the best of times, but particularly rare in a dictionary.

A large portion of Mr. Lyell's Introduction, as might be expected, is devoted to a consideration of the importance of the colloquial in English study today. Likening the colloquial to the garniture and salt which give savour to the body of the dish and make it more palatable and digestible, he urges us not to forget the garnish, and warns us against the probable linguistic indigestion should we do so. Mr. Lyell's analogy is a sane and true one, and if we listen to his plea for a balanced diet we shall not go far wrong. The danger is rather, however, in the opposite direction to where Mr. Lyell is looking. The present generation needs no conversion to the joys of colloquialism; it appreciates them nightly, and undiscriminately in the motives, and is rather inclined, sometimes it may be even encouraged by its teachers, to substitute the spice for the body of the dish. What we need today is a book to show us what the colloquial really is-its difficulties, dangers and delights-; and this Mr. Lyell has given us.

Conversational Behavior By classification and example the reader is introduced to the difficulties

of conversational behavior and usage. He is shown the temperamental nature of the colloquial-how it responds to every fresh dictate of fashion. He sees it in so many different forms that he often wonders whether they can really be English ; although they bear the unmistakable stamp of Anglo-Saxon personality and character. He begins to realize that the erratic colloquial forms are far harder than a correct formal English for the foreigner to master. But the dictionary would have failed in its avowed purpose if it had only carried the reader so far and no further. The difficulties are demonstrated to be interesting hazards in the linguistic game, which do not daunt, but rather quicken, the imagination of the adventurer in language : For is not the essence of all adventure the unexpected ? The rewards, so Mr. Lyell seems to tell us, are sufficiently attractive. They are, to use his own words, which it would be difficult to improve upon," a more intimate knowledge, not only of our language, but also of ourselves, our lives and characters, thus bringing about a closer understanding .••• "

Any review of this book would be incomplete without some notice of its general make-up, printing and binding. For this the Hokuseido Press is responsible, and it must be congratulated on a notable achievement in book­making for Japan. In appearance the dictionary is in no way inferior to the well-known publications of the Oxford University Press. It reminds us in particular of the Oxford Pocket Dictionary, except . for an additional gold and black design on the cover of the Tokyo publication, which is a distinct improvement on the original. The type is good and marvellously free from typographical errors.

GOOD BOOK MAKING (japan Times, Sept. 10, 1931)

We have more than once noted the good work of the Hokuseido Press of Tokyo in raising the standard of English language publications appearing in Japan. They have perhaps surpassed themselves in the way of good book making by the production of a work by Mr. Thomas R. G. Lyell on "Slang, Phrase and Idiom in Colloquial English and Their Use," a volume of 764 pages. Except­ing for the name of the publisher, one would believe that the book had been printed and bound abroad. . . . •

The good impression of the volume is all the more increased when one considers the majority of English language books which have been produced here. The printing world of Japan would seem to have imported its type forms in the days of early Meiji. • . • •

We have gone into the above matter in some detail since the Japanese printing world would seem to be some .. what indifferent to these facts. One glance at a volume is sufficient to tell whether the volume had been printed in Japan or not. All the more surprising, therefore, was it to behold this latest volume from the Hokuseido Press, which one would say-at first glance-· had been produced in England and not in Japan.

Thill dictionary contains up..to-date eolloquialiiiD. and therefore lncladell thole alan.r expr-fona produced durfq the War. moat of which are missing In other dictionaries. It alao abow1. not only how each expresalon Ia used. bot 'When It Ia used : I.e. whether It Ia suitable for familiar or ordinary convenatlon. whether it ill literary or vulpr. Modern uaa8'e is. In many caset. aurpriain.rly dif!erent :from that of pre-War daya. The Dictionary i• unique In .rivin.r full examples for every exprealon contained. showinsr how it Ia aetuall:v used. It ai.O contains a number of eolloqulaliama which are missing in other books of this kind. owiq to their being considered too ordinar:v and therefore too well known for bwertion. but which in actual fact. have been found to be moat puzzline to foreltrnen.

The volume is one which, we believe, will find its way into the library of all who are interested in language and literature. It is entirely lacking in any Japanese ex­planatory matter, the pronunciation of the phrases being rendered by phonetic symbols which, of course, every Japanese student of English should first master. The volume is thus an attractive one even for those to whom the English language is the mother tongue, and to whom much explanatory matter in Japanese is irritating.