It is however in details that tinese buildings are most worthy, study. This is only to be exe rected from a nation not remark= uble for largeness of view and with infinite capacity for entire abstraction, The Chinese excels looking at the jewelled ceiling knee deep in the filth of the floor. He ran riot over detail; huge lace qvered pillars wine coloured with golden dragons, a tangle of high shooting flame, cofferred ceiling with beams all gay with streen and gold and blue, and every tiny panel edged with gold and painted with the dragon or the lotus; lattice work wonderfully carved and great high dignified nail studded doors with wealth of beautiful ironwork, Infinite paing is taken in exterior, eccoration also, the eaves are richly pointed often with a profusion of gilding, every roof ridge has its als, its great central boss in ornamental tiles or gilded cone; the hip Tines are broken by little figures of the same colour as the And then the tiles which are the glory of a Chinese building. These make the beauty of Peking unforget= table, these are the transfiguring, beauty spots to her many sisters vb and slattish otherwise, Climb the Walls of Peking on any, day of fair, still autumn weather. thence will' be seen amber roofed imperial palaces in their setting of coral pink walls: Temple roofs in turquoise, dark hued sapphire and pearly grey in high walled cedar Hanted compounds; mansions in Peacock green, islands of burnished odour amid the sea of smoke grey, roofs which house the +strenuous Jostling throng in the miles long straight streets; those far reaching ands of indigo blue spangled with metal of the myriad rieshas slowing at the odzes with the scarlet and gold of the shop signs.
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