London, Jan. 17.
Miss Kemp, who has spent many years travelling and picture painting in China, lecturing before the Asiatic Society yesterday on Chinese idealism, said that, whereas in India, Egypt and Greece the name of a god or goddess was given to a temple, the tempies of Cnina were named after Heaven, the Karth, the Sun and the Moon.
The Chinese had a passionate love for nature. Some of their temples were built on great heights from which magnificent views were obtained, but the Chinese were becoming westernized. The Temple of Heaven outside Peking had been converted into a workhouse and the gods in many temples had fallen to pieces for want of care. Nevertheless, she declared, the Chinese were able to teach the outsider much in art and the beauties of ritual.—Reuter.
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