larly foreshadowed: they amply
justified the faith of the artist.... To-day the war pictures continue
to multiply; but they have changed character. The inexorable truth
of the photograph, and the sketches of the war correspondent, now
bring all the vividness and violence of fact to help the artist's
imagination. There was something na[:i]ve and theatrical in the
drawings of anticipation; but the pictures of the hour represent the
most tragic reality,--always becoming more terrible. At this writing,
Japan has yet lost no single battle; but not a few of her victories
have been dearly won.

To enumerate even a tenth of the various articles ornamented with
designs inspired by the war--articles such as combs, clasps, fans,
brooches, card-cases, purses--would require a volume. Even cakes and
confectionery are stamped with naval or military designs; and the
glass or paper windows of shops--not to mention the signboards--have
pictures of Japanese victories painted upon them. At night the shop
lanterns proclaim the pride of the nation in its fleets and armies;
and a whole chapter might easily be written about the new designs in
transparencies and toy lanterns. A new revolving lantern--turned by
the air-current which its own flame creates--has become very popular.
It represents a charge of Japanese infantry upon Russian defenses;
and holes pierced in the colored paper, so as to produce a continuous
vivid flashing while the transparency revolves, suggest the exploding
of shells and the volleying of machine guns.

Some displays of the art-impulse, as inspired by the war, have been
made in directions entirely unfamiliar to Western experience,--in
the manufacture, for example, of women's hair ornaments and dress
materials. Dress goods decorated with war pictures have actually
become a fashion,--especially cr[^e]pe silks for underwear, and
figured silk linings for cloaks and sleeves. More remarkable
than these are the new hairpins;--by hairpins I mean those long
double-pronged ornaments of flexible metal which are called
_kanzashi_, and are more or less ornamented according to the age
of the wearer. (The _kanzashi_ made for young girls are highly
decorative; those worn by older folk are plain, or adorned only with
a ball of coral or polished stone.) The new hairpins might be called
commemorative: one, of which the decoration represents a British and
a Japanese flag intercrossed, celebrates the Anglo-Japanese alliance;
another repre