This year's publication of the work of the Literary Department of the American Wbman's Club—"Arts and Art Crafts of Ancient China''—~is not only a valuable compilation of information and material carefully gathered and presented by the various members. It_is, moreover, a contribution of original value to the study of Chinese art.
The richness of the volume is greatly enhanced by the addition to it of the work of several learned sinologues, as the treatment of some subjects has never appeared in aero AL TI Ha cepa print before. Other papers which represent gleanings from many sources have been prepared with such painstaking research as to take op the value of an original work. Last of all, the preparation of the pamphlet has been done with careful thought and_ skill and is beautified by illustrations appearing throughout of valuable art objects belonging to collectors in Shanghai and particularly the reproductions in calotype of two priceless paintings belonging to Mr. E. A. Strehlneek.
All of the papers are presented in a most readable and interesting form, reflecting the personality of the writers and suggesting a rich and colourful background of knowledge and experience which the reader will be sorry not to have shared. will be possible only briefly to indicate the material "within the volume. Mr. Charles Kleine, G. 8. introduces it with a translation of a fantastically conceived fairy tale of The Cowherd and the Weaving Maid." It is a transla. tion and also a poetic interpretation, most charmingly done. A paper upon the "Bronze Sacred Vessels" by the Rev. Evan Morgan presents material which has been culled entirely from Chinese sources. Mr. R. D. Abraham has contributed one of the most valuable papers of all, a carefully developed description of the forces which lead up to the art of the Sung dynasty. He succeeds in imparting te the reader
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