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  Kobo: A Story of the Far East. Illustrated by W. RAINEY.

  This book recounts the adventures of a young British engineer during theopening phases of the Russo-Japanese War. Bob Fawcett is sent to theFar East on behalf of his firm, which has supplied range-findinginstruments to the Japanese Navy. His arrival coinciding with theoutbreak of war leads, by a natural sequence of events, to his being aneye-witness of the first great sea fights by which Japan revealedherself to the world as a first-rate naval power; and the grim strugglebetween East and West is an ever-present background to the stirringstory of his subsequent adventures amongst Cossacks and Manchu brigands,and of his friendship with Kobo, an officer of the Japanese SecretService.

  "An excellent story, such as one might expect to have from the author ofthat capital book, 'Tom Burnaby.' 'With a Japanese duty comesinexorably first.' This, indeed, is the keynote of the whole story.This principle of action dominates Bob's friend, and it dominates thestory."--_Spectator_.

  "The book is capital: full of life and vigour and local colour.... Mr.Strang has intimate personal knowledge of the countries of which hewrites, which, no doubt, accounts for much of the _vraisemblance_ of hisstory."--_Guardian_.