Dairen, Mar. 4 Thirty-two sailors of the British freighter Zemalak, 1,566 tons, which stranded off Port Arthur in a dense fog early this morning, were taken of by a Japanese steamer which responded to an S.O.S. The Zemalak, whic is chartered by the Japanese Steumship Company, was en route from Chinwangtao to Wakamatsu in Kyushu. It sprang a bad leak but apparently was not in danger of sinking, according to a report received here.—Domei.
As for the Han Dynasty, as revealed in the bronzes now at the Metropolitan, the Late Chou geometric patterns, explains Mr. Priest, are there, but they are well sobered up; and the supernatural monsters of the Chou period—they have been clipped of their lightning and their fire, domesticated and tamed. The Han acrobats stay on the ground. The animals are far from the star-blooded creatures that roamed through the Chou heavens. These were gone, gone forever—save for once when, millenniums later, a solitary jabberwock with eyes of flame came whiffing through the tulgey wood and burbled as it came.'
If any one can make the appalling scholarship that envelops ancient Chinese bronzes seem simple and friendly, Alan Priest is your man. And the sumptuous, explosive exhibition is his exhibition, though the objects in it belong to fortunate owners hither and yon. \And it can be our exhibition too, if we will, Only bear in mind that when a dunn bottle is opened, no one knows what may happen next.
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