A courte of four public lectures on Chinere Art and History in prer tion for the Exhibition of Chinese Act was recently given at Westtield College, University of London, in aid of the College Building Fund. The forge audiences that came from all over London testify to the very real fand intelligent interest that is be taken in the exhibition and the d sire to learn something of the ancient culture of China during these months. The lecture began with an_introduetion to the subject by Sir E. Denisor Ross, director of the School Oriental Studies, on "How the most famous Book of Travel came to be written," and in company with Marco Polo, the audience were carried over 10 China of the 14th century, lived in ils imperial palaces and journeyed back on the long se" voyage to Italy again. In the second lecture, Mr. Laurence Binyon, late Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, lustrated some of the treasures of Chinese painting and in beautiful language made clear from them how widely the Chinese conception of man's place in nature Giffers from that of the Western artist. The Rev. E.R. Hughes, Reader in Chinese in the University of Oxford, in the third lecture gave a masterly survey of the political and social conditions prevailing at the time of Confucious and during the five hundred years following on his teaching, showing the gradual expansion and change in the teachings his disciples as Confucianism became a state religion. Finally..Mr-Bernard Rackham, Keeper of the Department of Ceramics, Victoria and Albert Museum, jMustrated a most informative and lucid lecture on Chinese pottery and porcelain by magnificent lantern slides showing the gradual evolution and change In the ceramic art from the pre-Tang period to the present day.
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