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Asia. August 1921

1921

L. ADAMS BECK writes: I consider it vital to the West that it should assimilate the spirit of the East in many things if the world is not to sink into the slough of materialism." Few wriers have obtained so rare an insight into the psychology and lore of the East as the author of "The Great River". [...] Fifth Avenue 34th and 33d Streets New York THE AMERICAN ASIATIC ASSOCIATION THE PURPOSE of The American Asiatic Association iTo contribute to a satisfactory adjusment of the relations between Asiatic countries and the rest of the world by the removal of sources of misunderstanding and the dissipation of ignorant prejudices; and to cooperate with all other agencies religious educational [...] That evening he thought over the story of Pilbury and the little karait of the mended phonograph (somebody's Orientate the top record) and the but of Beattie at a distance -the old story of two men cast together welded and twisted and suspended in time together each all that the other hated. [...] Perhaps when the college boys who are studying engineering begin to hamer and saw to the accompaniment of the trade-songs as soon as they get into the shops and the foreign teacher amusedly catches himself joining in the work goes none the slower in spite of theories of efficiency. [...] Often in the Rembrandt lights and shadows as the flare of the forge and the glow of flying sparks from the dull red beaten metal fall upon powerful breasts and muscular arms the men look like rude demi-gods.
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Pages
84
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.120323
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
657-662 John Foord view
The Deadly Karait
663-668 John Foord view
Singing Craftsmen of Peking
669-iv Sam Dean view
Black Bull the Champion
676-676 Bernard Sexton view
Main Street in a Caucasian Village
677-iv Elizabeth Anderson view
An Evening with the Damned
683-i K.K. Ardaschir view
In the Domain of the Living Buddhas
689-696 John Foord view
The Dangerous Islands
697-702 Frederick O'brien view
Hindu Stories In American Negro Folk-Lore
703-iv W. Brown view
The Great River
708-ii L. Beck view
My Chinese Marriage
715-iv M.T.F. view
The Oldest University in the World
721-721 W. Wheeler view

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