Foochow is not generally known to reduce many of the elegancies of life, the "oochow lacquer being the single exce} But one of our local merchants who decidedly decora' kink in his construc tion has contrived to unearth some excellent wood carvers whom he has employed to make a model of a Chinese temple in brown wood. The whole thing is finished to the utmost delicacy of detail, even the insides of the roof and the ends of the beams being carved exactly as one may see them in any temple or theatre. The carving is by no means on a small scale as it occupies an area of some six feet by four. The artists have taken a year over it. The other day the community were invited to inspect the work. Besides the wood carving there were some pieces of sculpture in what seems to be a sort of green granite. These were finished with great delicacy. Though not perhaps quite comparable with the work of Phidias they were well enough done to deserve the name of sculpture.
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