Chinese art ivory, in the opinion of the reviewer and of practically all amateurs of the ancient art of China, constitutes an art of a lower category. It is extremely rare to find apiece of ivory which Is inspiring in the least degree. For that reason, when the Imperial colleen tions Of Chinese ancient art were sent to London and exhibited a few years ago, samples of Chinese ivories were practically non existent, with! the exception of a very few pieces: without any real arlistie valu Furthermore, as the author alleges "it is only in recent times that mo-chine carving and factory methods! have combined to make "mast pro nection of carved iworles possible must be admitted that any shape: of art which can be made the object of "mass production" Is, no art at all.
Ivory, nevertheless, has been from' the ently days of Chinese civilization, carved, fashioned and polished, if we rely upon the discovery. fof some fossils found north and south of the Yangtze. 'The mandarins, high oflelals of the Court, ete. used ivory freely and in' many Ways as an ornament in the same Hay oF they were very fond Mr. Eastham' work is, as far ox 1 know, the most complete and thorough survey of Chinese "art Ivory. For that reason i should fon every Chinese art amateur's Cooked Over Fierce Flame Me, Willi Pvischauer's book "The Nazis at War" (Gollanez, London. 10'G) is of w documentary order. Mr. Prischauer was a lively newspaper reporter in Vienna before the German marched into his country. He ade hile dis Rennie Sint sy in
The bool i revealing Tight or experience upon, Germany's youth, much 35, in the sphere of alt Tite, has been done tu the to. books br. Hermann atsehning for Mite Ter' contemporaries Its. in fact Shallenge to. civilization "to" ests these boys from the Me lio. which {heir eers are so wantonly Teaing to take scrap of news about Germany from newspapers, private letters and smuggled messages, add the salt of coulment and the pepper of irony and then cook over a fierce flame. The result fs entertaining and in its way instructive. Mr. Hannen Swaffer says fon the dust cover that the book is it fy nothing of the sort.
15 described is what one would expect to find in a nation which has one through a drastic revolution, Hanized itself for war and allowed a new ruling class to establish its hold over minds and bodies.
Put not men's secret faults, for bs ing them you make Suurselt Gf ne rebite.—" Th Guustax or Sabh, It is interesting to note how from [time fo time the controlled Press have to acknowledge "such happenings as the storming of a food shop by a queue of angry women, the breakdown of the transport system, the
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