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ivolved with which we are as yet unfamiliar. The level of accomplishment of Japanese writers can now compare with that of any country, and as there is every likelihood that it will continue to improve, it may well happen that Japan, which has produced The Tale of Genji, the Nō plays, and other works of remarkable beauty, will again add to that small body of immortal works which belong not only to herself but to the entire world.