Tokyo, Sept. ii, 1916.
Dear Mr. Idichi :

I am very much obliged to you for letting
me read the manuscript of your book entitled
" My New York Life " ; and I feel honored by
your request to write an introduction to the book.
I may say, in the beginning, that I am very glad
that you have written such a book, which gives
a good idea of American life in the large cities.
I am specially gratified that you have written in
such a calm, sane and fair manner. An Oriental
might naturally have exaggerated and ridiculed
the vast differences noticeable. I am not sure that
I might not myself criticize some phases of Ameri¬
can life even more severely than you do. But I
am glad that you could enter into sympathy with
what you saw there and that even your criticisms
are reasonable. I am trying in Japan as much as
possible to get the Japanese point of view and to
explain it to my friends and countrymen ; but I do
not liesitate to criticize certain features of Japanese