Mr. Togo: Maid of all Work

Book excerpt: This epistolary style novel, written by Wallace Irwin, is about a Japanese caricature figure named Hashimura Togo, a 35-year-old man who lived in the United States, and spoke in a stereotypical fractured English. Though some of the remarks are out of touch with today's sentiment, the book still provides an interesting look into the American perspective of the Japanese people prior to World War I.