Word: waley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lectures at Harvard next fall, M. R. James, a well-known English mediaevalist, Dr. A. Warburg, of the University of Hamburg, Paul Pelliot, a French Orientalist. Roger Fry, British author and authority on modern painting, Bernnard Berenson, an eminent authority in the field of Italian painting and Arthur Waley of the British Museum...
...beauty; they ate only fruit and vegetables. Archaeologists calculated that they must be descendants of a clan called Heike which was driven into the mountains in the 11th Century by Genji, amorous but warlike royal bastard, whose biography* has lately been appearing in English, translated by scholarly Arthur Waley...
...SACRED TREE - Lady Murasaki - Translated by Arthur Waley - Houghton, Mifflin ($3.50). "Being a continuation," continues the title, "of The Tale of Genji," of which multivolumed novel of 11th Century Nippon (TIME, Aug. 3) a third part will shortly appear. Prince Genji, son of an imperial concubine, sustains the family's amative tradition with graceful zest and much discreet slippering through his father's seraglios and the chambers of ladies, married and otherwise, among the plebs. In this volume he survives an exile inflicted upon him by his mother's chief rival, for his courtesies to her younger...
...many respects the most fascinating of this great series. In "Arrowsmith," Sinclair Lewis has produced his best but by no means his most popular novel. He seems to give promise of writing better and preaching reform less. "The Tale of Genji," translated from the twelfth century Japanese by Arthur Waley, tells with great charm and delicacy the story of a royal prince with some of the characteristics of a Don Juan. It is curious to find so old a story so new, so alive, and so modern...