"The Japanese theatre art differs so widely from anything to be seen in Western countries that it might as well belong…"

"Kabuki is most distinguished when it deals with the weird and grotesque, and the American visitor may not be at all s…"

"Throughout the realm, the Hina Matsuri will be observed in the homes of rich and poor alike when a series of shelves,…"

"The western observer no doubt upon first impression may regard it as a hardchip that the girls of a family should do …"

"In the No the world of the real is left behind and the audience enters into a land of imagination; the face of the ac…"

"A more disciplined stage than that of the Imperial can hardly be duplicated in any of the world's theater centers. Th…"

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"2. , , Paris, France has been running what he calls "a socialist utopia masquerading as a bookstore" for 50 years. Hi…"

"is the anti-Paris. Lodged among the rocky cliffs on France's southern coast, it is a brash and sun-scoured city. Inst…"

"During my four months at the bookstore, I read over one hundred and fifty books. ... That's the biggest luxury in lif…"