Japanese impressions, with a note on ConfuciusTranslated from the French by Frances Rumsey; with a prefby Anatole France . n a whole which flows to its own Japanese poet would treat them for theirindividual value. One notes here an essentialdivergence between the Japanese and the French;the most fragmentary of the French poets areeminently constructive compared to theirs. These differences are finally reducible to theelements of psychologic definition. An Occidentalmind instinctively constructs; a Japanese mindinstinctively dissociates. This is an atavistic ten-dency, a trend of habit
Japanese impressions, with a note on ConfuciusTranslated from the French by Frances Rumsey; with a prefby Anatole France . n a whole which flows to its own Japanese poet would treat them for theirindividual value. One notes here an essentialdivergence between the Japanese and the French;the most fragmentary of the French poets areeminently constructive compared to theirs. These differences are finally reducible to theelements of psychologic definition. An Occidentalmind instinctively constructs; a Japanese mindinstinctively dissociates. This is an atavistic ten-dency, a trend of habit accentuated by early educa-tion and at times corrected by advanced French child who tries his hand at drawingfirst makes a house or a man; the little Japanesedraws a tree or the curve of a finger-nail. Theone reacts at once to the whole ; the other, withthe immediacy of instinct, to detail. Their differ-ences of impression and of execution are after alldifferences of immensity, if they have the great-ness to integrate their dreams and if one becomesa Corot and the other a Motonobu. JAPANESE PATRIOTISM. JAPANESE PATRIOTISM OKTO, 6th February 1904. An im-perial decree, published this morning,promulgates the continuance underarms of the marine forces whichwere shortly to be fact still more serious, and thepublication of which has been for-bidden, is that the army reservists have been calledto the colours. A crowd is gathered about thebarracks to acclaim them. There is a general beliefthat the declaration of war is imminent. The government keeps the public in completeignorance of both its intentions and its absolute censorship is exercised in regard to allnews concerning military operations. Even to-day,when the streets of Tokyo are alive with the excite-ment caused by the issuance of the call to reservists,the papers refrain from publishing this order. Thisstate of ignorance fails to calm general opinion anddefinitely exasperates it. Duri
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