. Wandering words. Reprinted, by permission, from papers published in the "Daily telegraph" and foreign journals and magazines. By Sir Edwin Arnold. With illustrations from drawings by Ben Boothby and from photographs. estern civilisation that consummate pro-duct of the isolated faiths and systems of Japan,we find spoiled for ever the old-world charms ofher nature, and see depart beyond recall virtuesand qualities never to be replaced, as they havenever been surpassed. This same Japanese woman,with all her shortcomings, ignorances, littlenesses,and absurdities, is like the brilliant and flower
. Wandering words. Reprinted, by permission, from papers published in the "Daily telegraph" and foreign journals and magazines. By Sir Edwin Arnold. With illustrations from drawings by Ben Boothby and from photographs. estern civilisation that consummate pro-duct of the isolated faiths and systems of Japan,we find spoiled for ever the old-world charms ofher nature, and see depart beyond recall virtuesand qualities never to be replaced, as they havenever been surpassed. This same Japanese woman,with all her shortcomings, ignorances, littlenesses,and absurdities, is like the brilliant and flower-loving butterfly whose existence she often rash touch upon the light and glad wingleaves her still flying, perhaps, but may destroy thedainty delicacy of that jewelled embroidery uponits delicate vans. On the whole, she has been uptill now very placidly happy, like her mothers andgrandmothers before her, and that is more than Iquite dare to predict for her daughters and grand- 144 WANDERING WORDS daughters, when, as seems inevitable, all aroundher must alter, and new times bring her new man-ners, while in her astonished little ears * the greatworld spins for ever down the ringing grooves TH1-: KMlKKOK OF JAPAN. VIIJAPANESE WRESTLERS K
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