Show Atlantic Monthly The fancy took me to go to Koto says Mr Pcrcival Lowell in his paper on Noto An Unexplored Corner of Japan and where Noto is and how he went there is not only the subject of the opening article in the January Atlantic butis to be the subject sub-ject of several srticles which aro to follow Mr Lowell always writes cleverly and his account of his journey is the freshest and most vivid travel sketch that hns appeared for some time He was accompanied on hiS wanderings by a certain Yejiro who acted as servant and courier Mr Lowell says that besides cooking excellently well he made paper plum blossoms beautifully beauti-fully and once constructed a string telephone tele-phone out of his own head I mention these samples of his accomplishments to show that he was no mere dabbler in pots and pans Houghton Mifflin Co Boston |