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Four reproductions of the work of three artists, the late Mu Chang Hsien, Mr. Hua Lo and Mr. Shao Fei, in the January number of "Tien Hsia Monthly" serve to illustrate a short editorial comment on modern Chinese art. These three artists are commended as exceptions to what the writer considers "i pressing state of affairs:
...the final impression one got from the National Exhibition of Art pat Pictures in the Chinese style, me exception of a few by Kao Chien-fu,.P'u Hsin-yn, and one or two others, made a sorry show when com- pa: pared with those by the old masters. As for sculpture, the modern specimens looked cheap beside those chiselled more than two thousand years ago. One felt that in modern Chinese art, there was only borrowed life: it lacked reality and seemed afraid of originality. Imitation first and last, imitation either of the Jatest craze in the West or the most respec—table in old Chinese art......
I|Gems from the Mosquito Press are given by Mr. David Chi-hsin Lu who traces the evolution of this type of journalism since its birth about 30 years ago. He feels that a remarkable change for the better has been taking place during the last five years and the mosquito press has taken an upward grade:
The editorials are, as a general rule, exceptionally good and intelligently written. Comments jon world problems are usually straight and simple, written in an understandable language welcomed by the masses.
Mr. Harold Acton has an amusing little sketch of Florence after the Medici drawn largely from comments of distinguished tourists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. China's Population Problem is discussed by Mr. Harry Paxton Howard, who considers it to be one of the most serious problems of the country to-day:
"when it is borne in mind that the Chinese population is increasing at a Tate of some four million persons yearly, it may be realized that even ihe widespread suffering and death of these days does not do more than dispose of a part of the increase.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.