Speaking at the dinner given by HIM, Government at Lancaster House this evening in. connection with the International Exhibition of Chinese Art the Chinese Ambassador, Mr. Que Tai-chi, referred to the generous support given to the exhibition by: Mr. Wang Ching-wel.
'Mr. Quo said that no Chinese could help but feel enriched, in his own Sense of his country's' art, by the depth and catholicity' with which the English people appreciated Chinese painting, carving and moulding, The exhibition commemorated th great fact, added Mr. Quo, that the sense of merely quaint and cussions had gone for ever as between China and the West, both in their ways and in other matiers than the arts, 'A Great Tradition "From this exhibition we can learn more about the soul of China than from many books," declared Mr. Wil-Lam Ormsby-Gore, First Commissioner of Works, who presided at the 'A China as a source of things of delicacy and delight we already knew," he continued, "but a China as fountain which lowed with an a deep spiritual and religious Intensity was known to only a few.
"Despite changed conditions and the rapidly changing world, it must, be our hope that China's arilstie herbage will not merely be preserved, but that great tradition will go on and China Droduce great masters in generations me
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