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The Subject Of Finnish Poetry Ought To Have A Special Interest For The Japanese Student, If Only For The Reason That Finnish Poetry Comes More Closely In Many Respects To Japanese Poetry Than Any Other Form Of Western Poetry.

French Novels Generally Treat Of The Relations Of Women To The World And To Lovers, After Marriage; Consequently There Is A Great Deal In French Novels About Adultery, About Improper Relations Between The Sexes, About Many Things Which The English Public Would Not Allow.

There Are Two Methods For The Literary Study Of Any Book - The First Being The Study Of Its Thought And Emotion; The Second Only That Of Its Workmanship. A Student Of Literature Should Study Some Of The Bible From Both Points Of View.

Whatever Doubts Or Vexations One Has In Japan, It Is Only Necessary To Ask One's Self: "well, Who Are The Best People To Live With?

The Tea Ceremony Requires Years Of Training And Practice ... Yet The Whole Of This Art, As To Its Detail, Signifies No More Than The Making And Serving Of A Cup Of Tea. The Supremely Important Matter Is That The Act Be Performed In The Most Perfect, Most Polite, Most Graceful, Most Charming Manner Possible.