Crossing the wilderness of snow that is Russia in winter-time, the customary visit to Moscow; then Paris—"the flowery city" ay she calls it—dolighted her with its glitter and splendour, and it was in Paris that she mot the founder of the fellowship which enabled her hus band to make hig journey. They stayed with Mr. Kahn, who explain= ed to them his desire to encourage International understanding.
Tu England the Shakespearean Fes-rival at Stratford-on-Avon was visited and the comments on the perform= ances show the Independence and Intelligence of the diarist. Thus "Antony and Cleopatra" Is admired, but Cleopatra appeared to be "some what hard, lacking In sweetness, Hike A mission-school mistress." "The Taming of the Shrew" was marred by the heroine being "too dry". As for the audience, it was more sombre than the Parisian audience, the women did not give much attention to making their toilet in their seats, as In Paris, but they had tea and Discults carried to their seats at the matinee. This did not please the Japanese lady, for although she Fecognized thal tea was just as in= Algpansable in England as elsewhere, she felt it was rather disorderly to have it In the seats of a theatre.
Ta Wales, Snowdon was admired, and actually the summit reached. But fag the Journey eventually had to include a visit to Switzerland and the scent of the Jungfrau—a feat which the diarist duly accomplished—it is not surprising that the only comment she could make on the Welsh giant was that it was a nice and tim mountain." In Wales the village girls mistook her for a Chinese, Literary Lions Ireland, Killarney and Ulster, were duly admired, but It seemed astonish Ing that Irishmen had to recruit for the army by means of advertisement, and it was felt that conscription had {ts advantages,. To Scotland three were devoted, and one of them was a Sunday, and although the Alarist wanted to try -haggis—"a food peculiar to Scotland which was like sausage stuffed with the insides of 'Animals"—they had to forego. the privilege, 'The Lake District of Eng-Tand, the beach at Yarmouth, a walla to the Ness at Lowestoft, the most easterly point. in England, and London duly came' into the itinerary. The diarist's comments are shrewd, even where their author has obviously misunderstood the situation, as, for instance, at Cambridge, where she saw self-supporting students mowing the Tawns, but they are always pleasant, appreciative and, where critical, have no malice. In fact the Englishman will feel that Mrs, Ichikawa was very Tong-suffering. in enduring the occa tonal experiences which.she met—although she seems to have given as food as she got when plunged into
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