PIERRE LOT! IN NEW YORK.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1600, 18 November 1912, Page 2

PIERRE LOT! IN NEW YORK.

Pierre Loti's visit to Now York still furnishes tho topic, for many interviews, writes the "Daily Telegraph's" Now York correspondent, and though tho distinguished author has more than onco intimated that lie plainly prefers the meditative East to the bustling West, tho reporters and also photographers still pursue him with requests for turthor impressions of Now York. M. Loti finds Central Park the counterpart of Hyde Park. in "inaenifique," but as regards Broadway, with its olectric signs and crowded restaurants, lie says, "Never again," America, according to M. Loti, has lost her soul, and to regain it she ne«ds an aristocracy and contemplation to offset the nll-pcrvading materialism. Ho says in effect: "What, docs it profit you Yankees to accumulnto untold stacks of dollars if in the process you sacrifice all great ideals and live in a constant atmosphere of bustle and excitcmcnt bordering upon chronic dyspepsia and inevitable neurasthenia?" Many Americans hnvo • begun asking themselves precisely the same question, and think it quito possible as Loti suggests, that contemplative nations like China and Turkey, in the early days of their history, woro happier than we are with all the accompaniments of modern discovery. Lotti's praiso of the "old regime in Turkey," more than once expressed to the bewildered reporters, is just as inscrutable to the average American- as .Count Nogi's suicide on the occasion of tho Mikado's funeral, but all he says and all ho does is, nevertheless, faithfully .reproduced. .Asked recently whether a longer residence here would not induce him to grow to like the West even better than the East in time, Loti replied emphatically, "Non, ■ noil, non; impossible; mille fois impos- •' sible!" Whence it is argued that the French "Immortal" and New York are for ■ over, incompatible.