Chapter I: Introduction

That the present edition of “_My Japanese Wife_” has been called for is a source of satisfaction to the writer. Of previous editions some 60,000 copies have been sold, and it is hoped the present version will prove none the less acceptable from the fact that the story has been revised and a considerable amount of new matter added to it.

The author has done this to enable the final form of the novel to be that in which it was originally written, but which for purposes of first publication in a particular series it was necessary to alter.

BOURNEMOUTH, ENGLAND.
April 2, 1902.

MY JAPANESE WIFE.