Note 113:2 — Chapter V
Reading edition
That Americans may understand more clearly what I mean and, so understanding, see that I speak without intention to offend, I quote from the list of "arrangements" in London for the forthcoming week, as given in to-day's London Times, those items which have a peculiarly cosmopolitan or extra-British character:
Friday—Pilgrims' Club, dinner to Lord Curzon of Kedleston, ex-Viceroy of India.
Saturday—Lyceum Club, dinner in honour of France to meet the French Ambassador and members of the Embassy, etc.
Sunday—Te Deum for Greek Independence, Greek Church, Moscow Road.
Monday—Royal Geographical Society, Sir Henry MacMahon on "Recent Exploration and Survey in Seistan."
Tuesday—Royal Colonial Institute, dinner and meeting. Royal Asiatic Society, Major Vost on "Kapilavastu." China Association, dinner to Prince Tsai-tse and his colleagues, Mr. R. S. Grundy, C. B., presiding.
Wednesday—Central Asian Society, Mr. A. Hamilton on "The Oxus River." Japan Society, Professor J. Takakusu on "Buddhism as we Find it in Japan."
This, it should be explained, is not a good week, because it is "out of the season," but the list will, I fancy, as it stands suffice to give American readers an idea of the extent to which London is in touch with the interests of all the world—an idea of how, by comparison, it is impossible to speak of New York (and still more of America as a whole) as being other than non-cosmopolitan, or in a not offensive sense, provincial.