| Show I t tj 111 11 rq I I The Coming Literary Genius J l I 4 I k Th question Is I whether the coming 1 I I t 11 I f bun will be native to the enl or 10 r 1 t iii j the nest says J H Tilt loon In the Atlantic r I At-lantic The case of Japan makes the 1 J student of literature and l literary pos slblhtles I pause Compare the situation I 1 J I of this empire with that of England In I I i the time of the 1 Tudor sovereigns The i n U I If likeness noteworthy All the Inllu el nrea If villeettlon from west and I 3 J tast are focused I so to sneak upon a It II 1 11 I 1 political and social organism Which 10 i r I not only wonderfully receptive but t I I I 1 1 which also dsplaj the capacity of re I I I action In Its own original elements 11 j < 1ooklna nl hack at the hlitory ot genies P11 lr 1 and seeing how largely II It belongs t r the people as dlstuiKulnhed from what may someulmt I Irreverently be called jJ ttlrn 1 I jlt the blooded stock of a nation one feels I like Inquiring how deeply Into the sub r strata of human life III Japan the alien I j 11 1 nuances Save Penetrated WMn I hose reach the d pill where folk tra 11 ttlon iJh r I tlon lurks nnd t Nee popular Imagination I I slumbers then the world may well loon ror a renctipli In which the nation will I I l I l show Yf that IMsVipablcV ln lltera I lure Meanwhile observe by way of I presage that two of the most striking J 1 I literary phenomena of the present day I J J are Riilyard Klpllnc with his overlay of lllndoolsm in English human an 11 I r rlr OIL dl learn with his I I r t varied experience patiently Inquisitive til about everything Japanese Finally I I whether the successor of Dnl end 1 J Ift Goethe rises from Asia or from Ih I ii west all I the light of the pat shown P g jf i I that he will speak not tlla tlu him of Ill t I I nation but of 0 worldwldcuIITc i that lie will at last unite the divided thought of humanity and comhln < In nne view two civilizations that brov I ji 4 Years been in wn o tz for thousands I a f |
