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ESCAPE WITH ME-An Oriental Sketch Book-Osbert Sltwell-Harrison-Hilton ($3). For the first 50 pages, readers may squirm at Osbert Sitwell's mannerisms (which include frequent use of the word "alas"). For the remaining 265 pages they may enjoy his style, which is elaborate, delicately colorful, at...
Ivor Richards' first public appearance in the U. S. was in 1931 at Harvard, where he arrived straight from two years' teaching at Tsing Hua University, Peking. His rumpled clothes, backswept curls, glinting, slightly Oriental eyes and catching humor interested undergraduates, but what interested them more was his...
Author Wolfe believes that Stalin signed the Moscow Pact with Oriental cunning. Others who read this book after the Nazi knockout of France may believe instead that the Red Army has become the Reichswehr's vast awkward squad, Russia itself a Nazi economic dependency. But last week, as the...
Of the 72,000 students enrolled in Japan's 45 universities, slightly more than 1,000 are Chinese; about 300 are from other foreign countries. Last week New York's Japan Institute proclaimed the growing importance of Nippon as a world educational centre. The 300-odd non-Chinese...
Unhappiest esthete in Japan last week was Charles Arsene-Henry, French Ambassador to Tokyo. A scholar of Japanese language and literature, voluminously informed particularly on Japanese poetry, polite as a Japanese minstrel, Ambassador Arsene-Henry falls into the first classification. Last week he was cruelly hounded by devotees of the...