Item 140 - Letter from Ernest Foxwell to Henry Sidgwick

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Expresses his delight at receiving a photograph of Sidgwick. Reports that the first edition of the translation of Sidgwick's Methods of Ethics will soon be available to the Japanese reading public, and that Professor Nakajima [the translator] 'expects that a 2nd ed.n will be called for before June.' Reports on recent political events in Japan, and discusses the problems facing that country, especially expenditure on the army and navy. Also refers to the 'comedy in China', involving the posting of Russian soldiers in the country.