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Japanese Affection Is Not Uttered In Words; It Scarcely Appears Even In The Tone Of Voice; It Is Chiefly Shown In Acts Of Exquisite Courtesy And Kindness.

In The World Of Reality The More Beautiful A Work Of Art, The Longer, We May Be Sure, Was The Time Required To Make It, And The Greater The Number Of Different Minds Which Assisted In Its Development.

I Often Imagine That The Longer He Studies English Literature The More The Japanese Student Must Be Astonished At The Extraordinary Predominance Given To The Passion Of Love Both In Fiction And In Poetry.

For This Reason, To Study English Literature Without Some General Knowledge Of The Relation Of The Bible To That Literature Would Be To Leave One's Literary Education Very Incomplete.

The Subject Of Finnish Poetry Ought To Have A Special Interest For The Japanese Student, If Only For The Reason That Finnish Poetry Comes More Closely In Many Respects To Japanese Poetry Than Any Other Form Of Western Poetry.