'Hills of Han' is a romance novel by Samuel Merwin. The story begins on a day in late March, when Miss Betty Doane sat in the quaintly airy dining-room of the Hotel Miyaka, at Kyoto, Japan, demurely sketching a man's profile on the back of a menu card. The man, her unconscious model, lounged comfortably alone by one of the swinging windows. He had finished his luncheon, pushed away his coffee cup, lighted a cigarette, and settled back to gaze out at the hillside where young green grasses and gay shrubs and diminutive trees bore pleasant evidence that the early Japanese springtime was at hand.