Therefore I work at Ernest Fenollosa's papers the more firmly I become convinced that his work is as important as that of any man of our times. That is a private opinion and will, I suppose, stay so for some time, since only a few of his friends have any sort of definite idea of what he had done before his death in 1908.

Almost anyone will grant that his life was the romance par excellence of modern scholarship. He went to Japan as a mere professor of economics or some dull subject of that sort. He ended as imperial

indefiniteness, but I think an image, that is to say their unity best, I think, an image, that is to say their unity lies in the image, they are built up about it, as the Greek plays are built up about a single moral convittion. As the Greek plays are elaborate presentations of some incident of a story well known, so also the Japanese plays rely upon a certain knowlege of past story or legend. They present some more vivid hour or crisis. If the Greek plays are troubled and solved by the gods, the Japanese are abounding in ghosts and spirits. In this way the spirit appears first in some homely guise, as in Catholic legend we find Christ appearing as a beggar.