Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, London, Paris, New York (no date)
Text: Helen Marion Burnside  Pictures: E. A. Cook
Shaped book, 11" tall; 6 double-sided paper pages plus cardboard covers printed only on the outside. No date.

Depicts Japanese children and some Western children. Many of the boys have Chinese-style pigtails and wear trousers; names include Lie-Bo, Loll, Pollee, Loo, Chung, so there seems to be some confusion of Chinese and Japanese. "Dollee"  is presumably supposed to be a pidgin word for "doll."
The children are depicted in classic Japanese games and pursuits: badminton, riding in a rickshaw, kite-flying, circle games, balls, taking care of babies, tea-drinking, walking with a Japanese umbrella. Buildings, landscapes, and interiors are not authentically Japanese. The Japanese dolls are, however, "from life"!

This is one of many doll-shaped books from around 1900. There was also a book called "Only a Doll." Some Americans assumed that Japanese children would and should prefer American dollies, but in this book Japanese dolls are preferred to Western dolls by the Japanese. The dolls depicted are cheap boy doll with the "bald spot," of the sort Amerrican children played with, with no attempt to depict the complex or higher-quality dolls of Japan itself; rather, the Japanese doll is a kind of Raggedy Ann/Andy (the pronoun "it" is used), lying on the grass or the floor or hanging from a hook.

Pictures linked below are full-size. They will be too long to view in their entirety onscreen. Two of the pictures are double-page spreads which will also be quite wide (about 850 pixels wide).