The Archive · 1924

Baer in Bast, and Wont in West

And never the twain wall meet Wo are this spring to wet quite a lot of reminiscences, and among them will be one promised by Mr. Thornton Butterworth, "Myself Not Least." This does not mean that Mr. Butterworth has written 44, although. he probably could, for we are not told who the writer is, and he just signs him-tell 'X. What we are told that behind the most impersonal otter of the alphabet, there concealed one t and Personalitios of the time, a personality with a name that has Jong been familiar in literary, journalistic, political and social circles. Naturally: he would. thus meet host of the prominent and interesting people who have figured in our public life. follows that he should xive usa.

anecdotage with stories of people wealth of lively and significant Tike Queen 'Vietorin, 'Lord' Tea dolph Churchill, Charles Stewart Parnell and Bernard Shaw.

Do houses, through the impress of personality that has been made upon them, exert a definite influones on their inhabitants? This is the text. on which one of oun most intellectual women novelists, Mrs. Blinor Mordaunt, founds 'n new book appearing with "Tutchinson, "People. and Houses." Tt is riot to be taken or mistaken for a mero random collection of short stories. Te volume of delicately portrayed impressions of houses and. the rooms in housca which seem to, be intimately assoointed with the people who live or have lived im them, But it is a novel tuid of ste ing descriptions and sensational opinions about Japan and the Japanese, A Mupeous sysmas.

Richard Aylmer's first to the Christian faith who introduced him to O Vu the courtesan ho was to marry. She came from a place of evil The Japancee kucawa in an insti la, while air" ideas and "cue rote fy daub our ices with a suc of romance, Wo prefer the ish crat. th sive conver the cafe, refence of love, which Wale hat the" pashas the spurious coquet Hat it ie ether advertised clearly by fecture ind by its beating drums Tt reper Yo mand un a schod, © Monsey Yor 0 town Bal bulling of municipal importance like

wed Yala aad bee si ito suruwa by her perfectly ree. pectable parents, according to Japanese custom, in order to save the family fortunes!

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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