The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-08

- HERE seems TO be something about
the essential spirit OF japanese
story that adapts II well TO tell
ing in the English tongue. That
IS 70 say. an essentially japanese
story seems to be more at home wheh
c,aa In an English dress than does story
essentially French or German or spanish.
..Iroka; Tales OF Japan" Is the tue Oh
little book OF japanese stories written IN
English BY a Japanese, Adachi hinno-
suke. and nothing fresher and more ex-
o,,,s,,e OF its kind has been puolished LOT
,,,anv n long day than this group OF Amer
,,.a ~ grown exotics. The only thing about
.,,a,, ,ba. Is not wholly delightful Is the
melancholy fact that they are all-neceS-
sarily. perhaps iheS u.l
chiefly with incidents In the me Vi t"e
s,amurai class, or with artists-,na' 10 W
.av I'm either case they are about sen
.,,tve proud. impraeticable FOLK 10 ~holii
Death Is always a. ampler solution Oh nio
than compromise with their Ideals
Tn. style in which the stories are writ
ten "a one of their chief merits IL ~ 50
cr,.o dainty. and full OF wonderful color.
Tho author apparently has a mind lui' VI
..,a,,,raso,a comparisons which tumble OF
"a ~ b,s pen in an endless orofn-
sion. reminding one, somehow "i l"e
.rec,anle OF a magician pulling unlimited
Quantities of roses from out his horh-oI-
,lsn,v lie has the picture-makihe si'
az a Japanese painter. The things ne ne-
.cr,,ss become Immediately visible 10 the
owe aa we'll as 10 tho mind, ana sa"hter
through his pages is like walking throush
. hook OF Japanese iandscapes-the pest
and loveIiest OF them.
one OF the things which viii naturally
ooc,,r IN the English reader Is compari-
80, n, the Japonese story as done by one
n the manner born with the Japanese
.,orv as our own writer's have done It..
ona reaches the conclusion that at our
best We have not succeeded 30 oaals III
rendering the subtler characteristics of an
alien race The charm OF 'lroka, for IN
stance. and tho charm of the FOX
Woman" have the same quality. which IL
Ia MS diflcult to describe as II Is easy
to feel.
.Iroka; Tales OF Japan" BY Adaohi
Kinnoa,,,Se, 35 Doubleday a. Mcclure.
For sale by Lowman q lIanford.
3. q q
This Doubleday a. Mcclure Company
have inausurated a now series of short
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And It doesn't matter at all that the
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