Excerpt from Playing the Game, a Story of Japan: Being a Sequel to "a Japanese Marriage" The period occupied by the story is from 1894 to 1904, and, among its adventures and its love-episodes, shows how the ex-grenadier, Sir Randolph Rich, the type of the athletic young Englishman, gradually changed his Opinion about the Japanese. When he went to Japan in 1894 he regarded them as a nation of conceited monkeys, and treated them with the utmost arrogance and contempt; in 1904 he thought them the finest foreigners in the world. Though the story is of Lega tion life in Tokyo, there are no portraits Of people actually connected with the British Legation there. Only one personage in the book is drawn from life (with his own consent), that of the far-seeing and patriotic man to whom we owe all our good relations with Japan; and he never had the smallest connection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.