ABSTRACT
It is one of the congruous incongruities of Japanof the Revolution — congruous because Public Automatic Telephones are proper in their place, incongruous because it may be said for a generalisation that nobody uses them in Tokyo ; also, because, when it rainseven when it is merely damp — Tokyo's principal business street is a quagmire, and because the next ' note ' of the Europeanisation of Tokyo-next after the Public Automatic Telephone-is the German Beer Hall. Not German either, for the sign-board is always in English, two-foot letters-c Kyobashi Beer Hall,' 'Kanda Beer Hall,' 'Fujikawa Beer Hall,'—all along a sign-board, thirty feet long, high in the air, opposing an unabashed front to the blue empyrean.
