A Vivid Presentation by Mrs. Ayscough Illustrated with remarkably fine slides, Mrs. Florence Ayscough's lecture, "The Great River in Poetry and Legend," delivered in German before the local branch of the German East Asiatic Society and the Friends of the Chinese" Institute, Frankfurt (Sinica), delighted her audience on Friday night. The ad~ dress was given in the hall of the Kaiser Wilhelm School, 1 Great Western Road Mrs. Ayscough, who, a few months ago, returned from an extensive tour up the Yangtze, proved herself thoroughly acquainted with her sub-Jeet. Her lecture throughout was graphic in its material, and presented 4 memorable picture of the river which, for centuries, has been soaked with legend and lore throughout its tremendous course, Li Tal Po and Tu Fu, some of whose poetry Mrs. Ayscough has given to the Wear In charming translations, were both well acquainted with the beauties of the stream and figured prominently in the speaker's account, Obviously appreciative of the splendid scenery, with, its traditional richness of colouring, Mrs. Ayscough described the river of "red brass", and made its far-away gorges things not of legend alone, but of vivid, impressive reality. 'Truly, "in, the words of the poet she quoted, "It another sky and earth, "not the world of man," that she' brought 10 her listeners, though, in her own inimitable style, she showed the whole in comprehensive and exact Particularly did Mrs, Ayscough speak of the Lady Chao Wang-chiang, known to posterity as Chao Chun, the Brilliant and Perfect, who, in the frst century A. D,, was sent as on offering 10 the Emperor Yuan. Because of her virtue, the Lady Chao Chun refused to bribe the Court artist who distorted her beauty to such an extent that the Emperor never called her from the women's quarters, but instead gave ther to the head of the Halung tribe, When she appeared to thank him for his kind care for her future, the Court gasped at the sight of her beauty, ut the tribesmen from Central Asia rrofused high ransom for her, "and there was mo hope for the Lady Chao Chun, whose life was lived out {nan agony of nostalgia. With the death of the Khan, she felt free to release herself and committed suicide, though long before then the artist Whose brush slandered her loveliness was put to death by the infuriated Emperor, who sent the fortis's wealth to the Wang family Mrs, Ayscough's slides were painted by Miss Lucille Douglass,
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