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[BY RAYNA RAPHAELSON IN JAPAN: "]" It is a place of perfect bionding, Nikko. In, other places of beauty, one might be thinking, "That is a thing that the genius of man has made "or else," This is nature's untouched lave liness." But not in Nikko.

In Nikko, nature and man have joined hands. Nature has given cathedral. aisles and man has built the shrines, One can almost lose sight of the place where the joining has been made. Moss grows over tone walks and stone flights of stairs. The branches of trees bend over brilliant walls. The forest embraces the shrines.

'Yet man's bands, although never intru sive in Nikko, are always apparent. Nature could not have built the walls, the pagoda, the gateways, nor could her rocks have been fashioned by her alone into tablets and walks and stair. ways of stone.

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But these touches of the genins of man do not disturb. They merge into the forest; they blend into the trees. They are embraced and shadowed by the cathe dral arches and cathedral aisles of Nikko's cryptomeria trees... These trees are Nikko's crowning glory.

In many ways it is true that in all. landsenpe in Japan, one sees & compost

tion in which the works of man and of

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Apress.compunique issued at Delhi states The Secretary of State-In-

Council has arrived at the following con-

clusions on the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the superior Civil Services in India, contained in para- graph 92 of their Report, in regard to house rontas In the case of houses, be- longing to Government.

(1) Rent shall be charged at a per- centage either of the capital cost of, con- struction or, in special enses of the market value: The cost of the site will be excluded in either case.

(II) Capital cost or market value, as the case may be, shall include the cost oi value of any installation and Attinga "provided" for, sewage system or electric

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(III) The annual assessed rent shall not exceed 8 per cent of the capital cost ar market value and no Government tenant shall be required to pay more than 10 per cent of his monthly emolumenta for the period of his occupation of the house.

(IV.) The cost of restoration er special repairs shall not be added to the capital; cost or market value, unless such restora. tion or repairs add to the accommodation or involve the replacement of the exist ing type of work, by work of a more "ca- tensive character,

(V.) The Government of India and the local governments shall have power to pool the tents in any manner which they

The rule in Hongkong, we understand. is that rent is charged not on the capital cost of construction, but at a rate of something like 6 per cent, of the salary of the occupier. Even in India, we inngine that Government servants who are not required to pay more, than 10 per cent. of their monthly emoluments as rent, must be a favoured class. ED.

nature have been blended. Bát in go other place in all the fairy islands is the may consider desirable, after the rents

»have been fixed in the manner indicated"] blending so perfect, and in no other. place bas it been nature who has so dein (I), (II.), and (III.) above. The de- finitely set the key. It is, the trees of Cessary amenituents will be made in the

fundamental rules in due course. Nikke that bring magie to her temples. Canopied by the leaf-laden limbs of the straight-truaked giants, these shrines of Nikko have become part of the enchant ed, forest. Their brilliance is softened by deep-green shadows. The shrines do not mar the forest, nor even transform it. They simply it themselves into the pic ture. The delicate tracery of the Alter ing sun strikes to intermittent splendour the gorgeous many coloured walls, the vivid shrines, the towering pagoda G dows of leaves darken the long, dignified atone pathways and the mosay flights of old stone stairs." Everything is buried in the forest dimness, until the infinitely varied and beautiful designs that cover the temple gateways and the walls seem to shine out from the forest shadows like patches of incredibly beautiful flowers growing on the carpet of an ani cient wood.

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"Sometimes in Nikko one almost forgets the shrines. One looks up into the ery ptomeria branches. Nothing, not even the shrines, conceived as they were in the minds of great creators and worked by the hands of a thousand master artists could be so beautiful as these trees They rise up in one sheer red-brown shaft into the sky. Their branches stretch out with a thousand leaves. Beneath, on the forest floor, vegetation is green and tush. Everywhere is the vivid thick mat of green, Terns, low-growing herbs, grass, flowers. Moss grows over everything. It climbs up the trunks of trees. It makes green all the crevices of the tem ple walks and stairs. It creeps up the walls of the brilliant shrines and binds them fast to the forest in which they

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passion that is found somewhere, in | Buddhism, or in Shinto, or a devotion that come mea feel for other mortals whe scein to be the sons of the gods, or whe them it was almply the undefined inspira tion af trees.

But, after all, sources do not matter." There is religion in Nikke. Without B single shrine it would be there. There can be little doubt that the men who chose Nikko for the setting of great shrines felt it. They must have re- cognized the religious atmosphere of this forest of leafy spires. They must have listened to Nikko's hundred bubbling streama, chanting their perpetual mass in the forest shadows.

That was the setting they chose. In it they planted the temples, and leading) up to the temples they planted a final glory. They made an avenue of the Nikko they planted cryptomeria trees- forest trees. Along a rond leading to

great towering trees they are to-day, stately pairs, over the countryside. three hundred years old. They wind in

Coming up through this aisle one glimpses the valleys between the hills. One sees the tiny checkered landscape of Japan through cryptomeria frames. One soes green hedges, patches of rice fields, houses with curving roofs, while straight carefully tended "gardens and fairy

ahead in the shadowed aisle, leading to Nikko and its brilliant shrines.

Without its trees Nikko would be merely a collection of beautiful altars and beautiful courts. All the myrisd designs would be there, the wails or which a thousand creative ideas have been so lavishly expended, the pillars whose intricacies of carvings speak of the patient labour of years, the magnificent ceilings of red and blue and green and gold in a thousand miraculous patterns, the gorgeous screens of lacquer, the screens with painted carvings, the screens Those forests are, of course, much elder of gold. There would be also the endless walls of the courtyards, the stairways, than the shrines. But the shrines are the toril gates, the tablets, the pagodas, old, three hundred years old, and through the fonts of purification with their cry- stal clear fountains of water and their all these years the unity of the great brilliant tiled roofs. But bereft of their plan of Nikko has been augmented by forest setting, all this would be merely the aging of stones, the spread of the the materials with which great beauty moss, the growing protective grandeur. So in the end it is not Nikko's shrines of the trees. To-day the man-made altars constitute the real genius of the men who bat her cathedral aisles of trees that of Nikko's temples fit almost inevitably conceived the great plan for her temples. into the forest-made alales.

Those men did not, of course, build the was there. But they were wise enough. setting for their handiwork The forest to sense its enchantment. They let the shadows of aspiring trees fall upon their

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gion in the air. Even if one never; enshrines. They let the brilliance of colour Never before was there anything like it, nor are its marvellous properties likely ever to tered the shrines, if one never gazed with which they lacquered the walls and be equalled in dizenges arising from impure blood. It searches out and arpals from the the wealth of design with which they vital current every lurking trace of poisonous matter, curing blood and skin diseases, forest shade. They let stray shafts of tin, guitre ur Derbyshire Neck, etc. It improves the general hemith enhanced them bo softened by the melloweentulous and Derbyshire Week, bad legs theses, he sunlight strike bere and there upon their removes long-standing bronchitis, methma and fiacking, straming, spasmodic tough, beautiful creations, so that everything.

too often the precursor of consumption. might, be bathed in the thousand faceted

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