Appearances: Being Notes of Travel. G. Lowes Dickinson

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066192136

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       PART I INDIA

       I IN THE RED SEA

       II AJANTA

       III ULSTER IN INDIA

       IV ANGLO-INDIA

       V A MYSTERY PLAY

       VI AN INDIAN SAINT

       VII A VILLAGE IN BENGAL

       VIII SRI RAMAKRISHNA

       IX THE MONSTROUS REGIMEN OF WOMEN

       X THE BUDDHA AT BURUPUDUR

       XI A MALAY THEATRE

       PART II CHINA

       I FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF CHINA

       II NANKING

       III IN THE YANGTSE GORGES

       IV PEKIN

       V THE ENGLISHMAN ABROAD

       VI CHINA IN TRANSITION

       VII A SACRED MOUNTAIN

       PART III JAPAN

       I FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF JAPAN

       II A "NO" DANCE

       III NIKKO

       IV DIVINE RIGHT IN JAPAN

       V FUJI

       VI JAPAN AND AMERICA

       VII HOME

       PART IV AMERICA

       I THE "DIVINE AVERAGE"

       II A CONTINENT OF PIONEERS

       III NIAGARA

       IV "THE MODERN PULPIT"

       V IN THE ROCKIES

       VI IN THE ADIRONDACKS

       VII THE RELIGION OF BUSINESS

       VIII RED-BLOODS AND "MOLLYCODDLES"

       IX ADVERTISEMENT

       X CULTURE

       XI ANTÆUS

       CONCLUDING ESSAY

PREFACE

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      The articles included in this book have already appeared, those from the East in the Manchester Guardian, those from America in the English Review. In reprinting them, I have chosen a title which may serve also as an apology. What I offer is not Reality; but appearances to me. From such appearances perhaps, in time, Reality may be constructed. I claim only to make my contribution. I do so because the new contact between East and West is perhaps the most important fact of our age; and the problems of action and thought which it creates can only be solved as each civilisation tries to understand the others, and, by so doing, better to understand itself. These articles represent at any rate a good will to understand; and they may, I hope, for that reason throw one gleam of light on the darkness.

For the opportunity of travelling in the East I am indebted to the munificence of Mr. Albert Kahn of Paris, who has founded what are known in this country as the Albert Kahn Travelling Fellowships.[1] The existence of this endowment is perhaps not as widely known as it should be. And if this volume should be the occasion of leading others to take advantage of the founder's generosity it will not have been written in vain.

      I have hesitated long before deciding to republish the letters on America. They were written in 1909, before the election of President Wilson, and all that led up to and is implied in that event. It was not, however, the fact that, so far, they are out of date, that caused me to hesitate. For they deal only incidentally with current politics, and whatever