The China Journal The Christmas Number of the China Journal is always an interesting publication. This year a well illustrated special article, deals seasonably with Christmas" Treas acd explains to the new-comer China exactly where the Christmas Tree is obtained in this part of the world. One photograph goes even further afield and deals "with the Dutch East Indies where the Tfimara Tree is used for Christmas festivities, Another contribution of ictere: t is the reproduction of Professor Von Rosthorn's address in Vienna on the subject of Pictorial Art acd Criticism, with special reference to China. The Professor makes a pointed reference to the antiquity of Chinese artistic traditions. He says "The human figure was the feat object of pictorial and sculptural earliest specimens recently been unearthed in the pro= Hince of "Shantumg. and. elsewhere, Mut we have. literary evidence For the fact that the custom 0
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