“I do not know whether the essay is a Japanese literary form, but if it is not Mr. Noguchi has perfectly realised its possibilities, and has used it in a manner which makes our most delicate masters seem rather heavy-handed. For Mr. Noguchi, though he has lived much in England and America, and knows English literature well, has accepted nothing from the West which might spoil his native virtues. . . Himself we may describe—not necessarily exhaustively—as a mystical dandy.”—Francis Bickley in the Bookman (London).
“Noguchi’s essays leave one advanced in a conception of beauty, and enlarged in understanding; and that is not altogether familiar experience in bookreading.”—The Academy.
