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Traveler Balfour found Oriental night life squalid, Damascus disappointing, with trams and a dump heap of wrecked automobiles bulking large in his impressions. He saw no cedars on Lebanon, was bored by the Syrian desert, slept soundly in the wilderness while his companions complained that the howling of jackals kept...
In Shanghai that sturdy pillar of the U. S. business colony, Frank Jay Raven, master of the "Raven Interests" (banking, real estate, insurance) which had assets of $70,000,000 as recently as last December, had just been shaken down. He blamed the collapse of his American-Oriental Banking Corp...
One of the most interesting of minor U. S. writers, Lafcadio Hearn has never been widely read, nor has his strange career been fully and deeply explored. Of Greek and Irish descent, blind in one eye, Hearn arrived in New York in 1869. Later he lived in Cincinnati where he...
No doubt Dr. Morrison's Nordic sensibilities revolted from the exaggeration of Oriental life. But he could have found a dignified, unmercenary spirit pervading those shrines conducted solely by the Roman Catholic, such as Gethsemane and the Church of the Dormition. The Roman Catholic Church cannot be responsible for...
Saito prides himself on his U. S. ways, his "Americanese" ("made," he jokes, "in Japan"). In Washington he has staffed his Delano & Aldrich, neo-Georgian Embassy with what he believes are the closest Oriental approximations of U. S. "good fellows." His corps of 18 (the British have 15) is more...