Quo gave a tea party the other day. for the distinguished Chinese painter. Professor Woo Lee-fu, son of Dr. 'Woo Kwang-Kien, the famous Anglo-Chinese scholar' and translator, Several of Professor Woo's pictures were shown, which are in the true classical style, notable among them being a scroll perhaps 18ft. long by. as many inches high, slightly reminiseent of the "Thousand Miles of the Yangtze" which attracted 30 much notice at the Chinese Art guests all-members of Exhibition at Burlington House, The:
PEN. Club (except your humble servant) Jincléding "Mr. and Mrs.
W, Novinson, Miss Rebecca West, Mr. Alec Waugh, Mr. H. G, Wells, Miss G. B, Stern' and others of that distinguished coterie. One felt very Bloomsbury and refined.
Next day Professor Woo lectured to the China Society on Chinese: Tandseape painting. He began of course with the development of calligraphy and its intimate connec-ton in China with painting, showing us how a piece of writing, however many lines it may contain, must represent to the eye, as well as to the mind, the writer's mentality as whole; for which purpose special strength is given to the last and first otters of any two successive lines, In landscape, painting, Professor Thousands of people take their cars abroad, "A friend was showing me this week the information he has got from the RAC. fora trip he and his wife are making fo Austria, includes a really marvellous map, with every feature that may call for special care in driving vividly shown; minnie details about hotels, octrois etc; a diagram to paste on the windscreen of all the road signs used read; and over, everything " the relteraied warning "Drive slow; Keep to the Right One necessity in going abroad is to make an exact list of every Loose and movable' object on the ear, which you deposit with the Customs. This, to frustrate the ingenious habit of some people to strip their car to the bone, go abroad and buy a full equipment of tools ete, and sell them on their return, If you yo to Ireland the lists of detatis about the car that you have to All up are as long as the 110th Psalm; and you also have to deposit the value of the car in money entering Ireland, fo prevent your selling it duty free while there.
With so many people going abroad, it 4s pleasing to add that our "Invisible exports": in the shape of foreign visitors to England are keeping up a high level. Most of them fare from America but, in spite of currency dimeulties, plenty of Con tinental manage toget here, There Woo said that "to an Oriental min id, was never a time when the nations, perhaps one of the outstanding. the majority of them, mingled features of the European painting is abundantly as now and with so much its piness to work after a model" mutual friendliness and satisfaction, The Chinese landscape painter may Some friends of mine who have been AIL his sketch book with notes, but making a long stay in Italy say that never accustomed to sit before a wherever they went they found the tree oF mountain and bring his ple-Italians, as friendly ture to such perfection as: a them the warmest welcome, the Westerner.
He seeks to be dominated certainly so in Germany. and inspired by Nature and then four, respective Gover evolves his picture in the studio, to keep us all at daggers drawn? poetizing - her and" seeking bring out her different moods. As Batlallons of Starlings Kuo Shih, the great Sung dynasty I saw a curious sight the evening painter, wrote, "The mountain seems before last when walking past St, smile in' spring, to droop 'Marti in-the-Fields about half-past. summer, to decorate in the autumn, hume (that of course is 8.80 sun time) to sleep in winter.' on my way to the Trafalgar Square An Irish Problem tube station. "Huge frocks of starlings were flying up from the west to I sat between two. Irishmen settle for the night among the arches, lunch this week and they were discussing what will be their position in England if Mr, De Valera puts his They advanced like battalions of new Republican constitution into force. It contains no mention of the soldiers in a march past at regular King or of Great Britain, affirms the intervals, There must have been hundreds in each battalion, and right of Ireland—henceforth tu _be while T watched 1 saw nine of them, called Eire, with Erse as the first official language and English os is As they arrived at and clustered round the spire they seemed to melt second—to have precisely what gov-.
Into it like smoke, Some of the ernment it pleases; the President {s birds must have been interlopers, not to succeed the Governor General' with enlarged powers and supreme recognized by the others as members command of the defence forces, of the dormitory, for from time to time a flock would burst from the 'The question raised by my Irish spire and flutter off eastwards with friends at lunch is put succinctly Youd cries, I had read of the stare a colonel, writing' to-day in the' ings who nightly roost on certain "Morning buildings in London, but never be-inder|fore seen them, Si," Paul's is a favourite resort, The starlings from wwed there, 1 believe, go out to feed on the north of London, the 'Trafalgar Square birds to the west and southwest. But like any other confirmed Londoner, they always come back to town for' the night,
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