Inouye of the diary of a Japanese lady who in 1931-32 made a tour of the world in company with her hus band, elected to. an Albert Kahn Travelling Fellowship. Educated at a girls' high school, Mrs, Haruko Tehikawa modestly claims for her diary the status "of a. photographic unmarked by any preconceived ideas and prepared with unsophis tated susceptibility, "Whatever the explanation is, the high school and the lady deserve more than usual commendation. The power of observation, the gift of insight into the minds and customs of strange people and the pleasant facility for preserv= ing a Japanese outlook and yet accepting the possibility of different doctrines and principles elsewhere, combine to give a most instructive and attractive picture of the journey. Those nations which were honoured by the lady's visits will be stimulated by her appreciations and even more by her criticisms, conveyed, as they always are, with all. the dif-Adence of true breeding. At Oxford, for example, she and her husband made the experiment of finding accommodation in a boarding house which was accustomed to receive families from abroad. The story of the Russian girl who was so delighted to hear from the Japanese visitors a few words of her own language again Is charmingly told. Tt iMustrates 0 well the spirit In which this young woman ventured out into foreign countries, Starting with China, where she found agreeable acquaintances in Peiping. she was a little uneasy and surprised at the outward evidences of antisJapanese feeling, but sensible enough to discern where it was unreal and so was not unsuccessful in getting to terms with veally friendly Chinese acquaintances, and she found herself able to admire.
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