Littell's Living Age/Volume 126/Issue 1630/Miscellany

A public library has recently been established at Yedo for the use of both natives and foreigners. It is open all the year round, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except on national and general holidays. Readers are allowed to make excerpts, but are not allowed to borrow books from the premises without the special permission of the minister of education. The regulations are ten in number, and are almost identical with those which are in force in similar institutions in European countries.

Athenæum.⁠