Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06
wITTER DINNER RETURNS
 AFTER YEAR SPENT IN CHI

witter Bynner. poet and traveller, a native of Brooklyn N T., but who spent his boyhood in Norwich and at- tended the Norwich schools. returned re- gently after a year spent in China, where he was engaged with Dr. Kiang- hu in the translation of three hundred Chinese poems.
 Mir. Bynner has been telling a repre- sentative of a Detroit paper of China's strange beauty and subtle fascination, weird and breathless stories of the awe some gorges of the Yang-tse; of the dead bodies that go floating down this river mcommented upon; of the tortu- ous deaths that law breakers suffer; of the beauteous temples and their tin kly little bells; of the student. Nieh Shin Chang, who led assstudent strike as protest against fhe government; of an old Chinese teacher who cut her wrists and died in order to drive home her appeal for funds to support her school; of a whole mountain crowned with a gorgeous Chinese castle that was for sale at s6.0oo and of innumerable other strange things.
 MT. Bynner did not visit China as most tourists do. He went into the real China, not into the show places. He lived in Chinese hotels, but consorted with the natives. making friends among { the Orientals rather than among tour | ists. for he went to the Orient to thor
 oughly know China.
 While Mir. Rynner was in the Orient
 he was engaged upon the translation
 of 300 Chinese poems of the Tang dy-
 nasty. dating from the sixth century
 to the tenth. His translation which
 will be brought out before long is
 based on Chinese anthology made
 
 China" Mir. Bynner told them in
 Detroit, "is far behind America in in
 dustry and science: but in art it out
 distances Us by miles. Its ancient
 painting. arN lecture and poetry en-
 body a beauty that mocks at human progress"
 Mir. Bynner lectured in Detroit during
 Tnne and early in July the Free Pres , devoted a whole page of it's rotogravur' supplement to reproducing picture which he had brought back from the bil Eastern Republic.
 After he had returned 10 New York : one of the Sunday papers gave column } to his achievements in literature. prais
 ing him as editor. poet, teacher. trans
 lator and lecturer. through whic
 achievements he has placed himself | . a small gror~ ~e e@rn~",- younger Amer an men of letters. He Is the first C o his generation, the paper declared. ( . add to his repertoire the more import . ant and more interesting role of Liter ' ary Ambassador.
 The writer then reviews the marvelou . experiences, of Mir. Bynner during h
 year spent in China, principally in tf interior of the Chinese nation. where n thorough was his absorption in the lii h of the scholars and people that durin ;. the whole period he rarely heard u .- sound of his own language n He has come back filled with the higl -- est admiration of the Chinese characte r and the pathos of their dying cultul n and traditions.
 i perior to the Japanese, declaring tn I the Japs are taking everything out China that they can lay hands on. if adds, Everywhere the English. too. a i finding pretexts to push into the cou , try, and they make no efforts to CO i ceal their hatred of the Americans 4 China.
 i q wonder how many people kno to that during the war an order went o ,s that no Americans were to be engag i as managers of English firms there? ot the other hand, many American fr1 in have British managers, who. in spite i their positions in come cases even =, suit the American travellers accredit . to their companies.
 T tell you this, not only because my. own unpleasant experiences, but =, cause scores of Americans have writt
 to our state department complaining
 these abuses"
 MT. Bynner described the Chine .. painting, pottery, architecture, etc 1S During his absence in the Orient, CT teresting letters from him were receiy H. in Norwich by his great-aunt, N k Louisa J. Brewer, of Washington stre at his uncle President Arthur H. Brew he of the Norwich Savings Society, 2 It. other relatives.