JAPANESE GIRLS AND WOMEN
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BY ALICE MABEL BACON REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge
Copyright, 1891, 1902, By ALICE MABEL BACON.
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