Nor. white way that slopes upward to} the high and holy things that we do not usually speak of nor see written in the newspaper.
We are favoured in Shanghai in having from time to time exhibitions of paintings by local and other artists. Some two years ago there was a very good exhibition of Chinese and Japan-
There are pictures and pictures.
Many a "young visitor" sees fairy palaces in the glowing' embers, and if we were to expostulate that we cannot see anything there but prosaic ashes ese pictures, in the Japanese she would be justified in re-Club. The exhibition impressed plying in the words of the those who saw it with the|famous artist, when the lady excellence of the workmanship displayed and gave some a new conception of the beauty Oriental art. And now, Miss Keith has just closed her exhibi tion of prints of Chinese, Japanese and Korean scenes. The drawings were good enough to deceive the very elect, and if exhibited in one of our art said she had never seen colours in the sky as he put in! his sunsets, "Don't you wish that! you could, Madam." We might with a good conscience wish that! we could, for then we, too, could!
"give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name," and live mot where we must but where we would. We would have stores none would have suspected they were not done by an artist native to the soil and to the manner born. Love of pictures is ingrained in the human mind. Prehistoric man,: rude -.cave found the secret of youth and though our hairs were white our! hearts would still be young and we' would not suffer, s0miuch from the harsh rebuffs of the
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