Show BOAST OF THE JAPANESE london saturday rev ew thinks they are too highly pra sed the japanese among whom I 1 have dwelt for a year and a day have been admired and campli dented and patted on the head as the child of the world s old age un til they have been quite spoiled as serious men of affairs says the lon don saturday review they have been praised in the wrong place an much as we should dislike to see russian aggression go unchecked some of us would not be too much overcome with grief to see them spanked on the right place the misplaced praise is well illus grated by a remark made to me by a japanese professor your country men especially the americans note even in a professor the involuntary tendency to lump foreigners er are very kind and mean well but they often offend our people by praising them for the qualities they no longer set store by you talk of our artistic eye and lissome fingers our antique treasures and delightful medieval survivals whereas it is our modern accomplishments that our people glory in the most their idea is that their never doubt ed superiority to the foreigner Is cor ro borated by their manifest ability to beat him at his own game have they not achieved in a decade what europe attained only by centuries of upward striding 9 |