[Gutenberg 27233] • The Critic in the Orient

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Egypt appeal to the sense of the historical. 7apan stands alone, alien to all our ways of life and thought, hut so intensely artistic, so saturated with the intellec tual spirit that it seems to helong to another world than this material, commercial existence that stamps all European and American life. The new China furnishes an attrattive field of study, hut unfortunately when I visited the country it was in the throes of revolution and travel was dangerous anywhere outside the great treaty ports.

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