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Mr, John Hazeldel Levis opens the December issue of "Tien Hsia Monthly" with an article on Phonology and Calligraphy in Chinese Art in which he points out that phonology is un indispensable phase in the study of Chinese music, and, like calligraphy, its importance can never be over-estimated:
...At present the inter-relationship between calligraphy and Chinese Many snologists and experts in Chin-painting is quite well understood by ese and Oriental culture, but that between phonology and music is only just coming into general appreciation.
A Note on Aubrey Beardsley is given by Mr, Wen Yuan-ning, in the course of which he says: evil is measurable to
jai artist would always foodness is not. Hence prefer ito depict states of evil rather than states of goodness We have great realistic novels which depict evil, but we have none that depict goodness.
Mr, Thomas R, Kelly presents an article on Emile Meyerson and the Philosophy of Science; China's Heroes of the Past are dealt with by Mr. L, C. Arlington, who describes five personalities and the restoration of their Memorial Halls. A discussion on The Historical Novels of Walter Pater is contributed by Mr. Chung Tso-you who compares "Marius the Epicurean" and "Gaston de Latour" with the historical novels of other English writers, and comes to the conclusion that when one considers Marius and Gaston as historical novels one is struck principally by the conventional. features of historical fiction which. they omit, such as archaisms in the dialogue and elaborate descriptions of period costume. The past is not presented as it might appear to the eye of a contemporary, but as it appears to one dwelling on it dri tender rati 3 Pater also lacked many of the necessary qualifications of a novelist—ability to construct an organic plot and to reveal characters directly by their actions and conversation. Consequently one is driven to the conclusion that Marius and Gaston survive not for their merits as historical novels, but for the exquisite grace of Pater's style and his subtle study of the philosophic cross-currents at periods of crisis.
Mr. Ling Hsu Hua has translated a really charming little sketch of his own, "Writing a Letter," in which a busy housewife approaches a highly educated Miss Wu with a view of enlisting her assistance in writing a letter to her husband—the housewife being "blind with her eyes open," meaning illiterate. Mrs. Chang brings compliments to Miss Wu and is vaguely discontented with her own lot.
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