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Dear Mr. Scudder:-

Yours of the 20th August
in re the title of "Kokoro" &c. reached
me just after I had posted a
letter on the subject.

I think your suggestion
of the advisability of a subtitle
is much better, after all, than
my suggestion for doing away
with a subtitle. I made
one, indeed, but it was bad -
too much like the subtitle
of "Out of the East." I
like the substitution you
propose - all except the
the word "believing", because of
western ideas attaching to the
word, and because of the
peculiar sound of the line
caused by the nasal imme-
-diately before the aspirate.
I should have proposed "The
Soul of Japan" - but for the
famous title of Mr. Lowell's