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Artfully translated by Arthur Waley the first four parts of Lady Murasaki's 900-year-old Japanese masterpiece, Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji, The Sacred Tree, The Wreath of Cloud, Blue Trousers), have given many an Occidental reader an appetite for the dainty psychological morsels of antique Nippon. With all its predecessors' inimitable flavor, The Lady of the Boat tells a simple story, though its characters are modernistically complex...
...have been a fairly constant reader of TIME for the past three years. During that time the one fault I 'have found with your otherwise excellent publication is a tendency to be politically biased in the narrating of news...
...Reader Weitzenkorn, onetime editor of Bernarr Macfadden's late pornoGraphic, is sophisticated. In TIME'S judgment, not everyone is aware of what he implies : that Singer Robeson, self-respecting, would never dream of having to do with blatant Negrophile Cunard. Fact remains, Singer Robeson did make the denial as reported...
...regular subscriber and admiring reader of TIME will you permit me to call your attention to an article on p. 67 of the Carnegie Maga zine for June entitled "Locating Ambassador Mellon," in which there appears a letter and a memorandum from Sir John Simon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, showing that the proper designation of the post held by Ambassador Mellon is the Court of St. James...
...Chhokrapur (a fictitious name for the Maharajah's State) he finds much that Alice found in Wonderland, a topsy-turvy world with a peculiar logic all its own. Out of jottings in the journal kept during his stay he produces an effervescent book that will aerate many a reader's slough of midsummer despond...