[4] It was a superstition of the Middle Ages that crows were born pure white.
[5] Alguaciles: the Spanish equivalent in the Middle Ages to policemen.
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Sayonara
JOHN PARIS
Kimono, Mr. John Paris’s first novel, has proved one of the most remarkably successful books published since the war. It has been a “best seller” in England and America; it has become famous all over the Far East and in Canada and Australia, besides being translated into several foreign languages. Its successor—Sayonara—has been eagerly awaited. The theme is based on the familiar aphorism that “East is East and West is West,” and that any attempt to reconcile them usually means disaster. Here again, as in Kimono, are found the most vivid pictures of Japan, old and new; Tokyo and its underworld, a powerful picture of Japanese farm life, and the cruel slavery of the “Yoshiwara.”