Tokyo, Aug. 15.
^1 feel now that I shall never write again. The world is too distracting. I must first find peace. No, sane writer can work in such a world as we are living in today."
With these words, Sigrid Undset, Scandinavia's most famous author and Nobel Prize winner, who has been visiting Japan, intimated in, an interview to the "Japen Chronicle" that she may lay down her pen.
Mrs. Undset left Kobe on the President Cleveland following a stay of about two weeks im this country. She was accompanied by her younger son (her only child now, her eldest son having been killed during the fighting in Norway). She visited Kyoto, Nara, Osaka and spent several days in Tokyo.
Asked how she was impressed by apan, she described the country as veritable paradise, though she insisted on the fact that the cities made no impression on her. She admired the countryside with its tiny picturesque farms.—Havas.
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