moting the peace of the world. It would be a pity to destroy a people who have shown so much capacity when touched by civilization. They cannot be refused admission to the "family of nations." They have won a "place in the sun," and we will have to count with them. But we cannot take them into our family-that is the distinction. We can treat them as an outside power, but we cannot incorporate them in our body-politic for reasons which affect the purity of the races and the perpetuity of our institutions. Nikko, Japan, October 31, 1921.

ARTICLE IV

WAS hard to leave Nikko for the Capital. It is said by the French, "Do not die until you see Carcasonne, a sentiment with which I agree, for the walled southern city haunts you with its medieval splendor. But the Japanese have a saying, "Do not use the word 'splendor' until you have seen Nikko;" and there you are!

There is no conflict, however. One is the work of man, and the other nature; and nature has wrought mightily in shaping and framing this splendid spot where man has given it an added touch by setting up his temples in the Groves of Crytomaria.

Having been requested to write an occasional letter, I trust that when I avoid the statistical and trite statements of the guide books I do not disappoint. There is so much of such information available that it would seem idle to repeat or supplement it. I think a personal narrative would, at any rate, be different from most correspondence,