As for me, I shall go back to California where I live, shaking the dust of this (to one person) damned dirty unsophisticated hick town from my feet, waving farewell (to another person) to a city whose like has never been produced anywhere at any time in history, and T shall be glad to be away from the rush and the bustle and noise. But I am convinced that I, like the reader, would fall a victim the wiles and fascinations of modern New York did I but remain here long enough for that natural Process to take place.
So, as one who knows European' capitals in just the same way he knows New York, who has put in twenty years and more in China arid various parts of Asia, I would say that there are two cities in the world—New York and Shanghai. And Tam not quite sure whether this is the order. in which. they Should stand, Fore hundred and six volumes of rare books of Buddhist sutras of Tibet and Mongolia have just come: into the possession of the Literary Department of Kyoto Imperial University, some of which are found nowhere elec in the world.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.