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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1921.

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CHINESE SCULPTURE

FLOWER CARVINGS.

EXQUISITE WORKMANSHIP,

HONGKONG.

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The word "sculptor" has come 1P: mean in the western world a man who works in that exceedingly solt and plant sastance known as," modelling clay." Having completed his "clay model he had it almost invariably to an Imlian workmap who casts it in plaster or bronze, or sometimes makes

a more or less mechanical reprodue tion of the work in marble. Only then when it returns to its authe, does any real sculpture begin this generally consists in the "sculptor removing the indiscretions of the

Italian workman:

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INDIAN'S IMPRESSIONS OF LONDON.

The following article written by an Indian visitor to London appeared in a recent issue of the Daily

Chronicle

FAMINE RELIEF, »

A DAY OF PRAYER.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

REQUEST TO HONGKONG CHURCHES. · ROTAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.

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The Rev. Mr. Lindsay has received word from the Peking Government requesting that the 20th shall be observed as a day of prayer for the There is not a better place, than scocess of the Relief Fund for the the top storey of a London omnibus starving people of North China. St. to watch the traffic and the streets Andrew's Church will gladly keep from. If you are in reasonable that day as a day of prayer, Mr. health, and if you are also reasonab-Lindsay informs us that all denomina- y unscripulous you can choose the tions are receiving the same request. I busiest time of the London day and The Bishop will preach on the even manage to secure one of the fronting of that day.

most seats.

Strictly speaking, boarding a busin

a crowded street is a real tour de force.

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do well to bequeath & collection of To be successful one must possess consented to distribute the prizes at Mrs. Claud Severn has kindly jade to the blind of St. Dunstan's in great strength, expedition, judgment. the Victoria British School on Feb. stead of to one of the museems. This and presence of mind. One must 14 at 11 a.m. aspect of artistic appreciation, how-anticipate all the movements of the ever, is being disregarded more of less nowadays by cer szektors-lo the surfaces of their work are often lite scrip-iron, and by car painters who leave bristles in their paint!

Ressinant jade gires out notes of peculiar beauty, and in Chire a con- noisseer is accustomed to hang carved resonant stones in wooden frames, se that they can be struck-like gongs or bells.

awaiting crowd and act swiftly. One must run fast" with the bus. One's foot must be on the board before the car stops. One must scramble up the stairs unmercifully. Have the eyes and the ears open to watch the punching of your neighbour's ticket and overhear where others. alight, and it is marvellous how quick you can secure an ideal seat.

Settling oneself in such comfort as available, there is the convenience, if there is the inclination, to watch the crowd on the footpaths.

There is another quality about these hard-stone carvings which is subtly beautiful.

Most people have fished up from little rock-pools what appert

The men, the women and the be pieces of green or white jade or children passing and repassing. jest "Fragments of fed agate only to Endling one against the other with belated that they have secured 2 borsel of apologies, present an immense study waterworth bottle-ghss or homely red in variety. There are those dressed brick: Objects seen in clear water in all the fineries of fashion, these have an indefinable beauty and un-that have "business** writ large btedly the Chinese hard-stone upon the brows, those who represent carvings in the quality of their sarthe idle or the unemployed

But face give the peculiar beauty of things

the majority of this public seen in a rockpool or the bed of a seem to be employed in a slow. clear stream; in fact as though seen lumbering walk, in pairs on an aver through water.

age, not busy, not idle, happy in the

TO-DAY'S „ADVERTISEMENTS.

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NOTICE.

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HEREBY NOTIFIED that the

CLOSING notice

VICTORIA ROAD, to trafie is withdrawn and that that road may to be used as berto

fore.

T. L. PERKINS. Director of Public Works. Public Works Department.

Hongkong, February 10, 1921.

H. STEPHENS & CO., LIMITED.

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hald at the Ofoes of Yes PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING, No. 5, SATURDAY, the 19th day of February. Queen's Bond Central 1st floor, on

pose provided for in the said Section. January, 1921

Dated at Hongkong the 27th day of

J. HENNESSEY SETH, FISAA.

Liquidator.

Now it is a singular fact that the sculptors of hard stones in China are, in this country, generally regarded onskilled lapidarists, and denke the title of sculptor, which in the true sense of the word they are fully ex- tified go for it any workers deserve this designation it is surely those Chinese men who worked the hardest

JOTICE IS HERFRY GIVEN known stones and gems into forms of tections at the Vittoria and Alben easily and leisurely.

In the Sairing. Cope and other coff company of one another, taking life No

suant to Section 181 of the Cons imperishable beauty, writes. George Museum tombers of jade and, hard-

Thus one goes on and on, watch-panies Ordinance, 1911, that a Meeting. Sheringham in the curve issue of stone carvings can be lighted and ating, enjoying and rominating, until of the Crediters of B. STEPHENS & The Studio under the heading The ranged with great skill and taste the bus, swirling round, presents the CO LTD., (Ta Liquidation), will be Flower Sculptors of China.**

The great value of the stones-elect of carvings of two-coloured

Here can be studied the exquisite spectator with a long vista.

In the distance the eye encounters Jadeite. Nephrite, Chakedony, Rose stones (as hard ar fades) in which the a solid mass of good architecture, standing in relief between two roads -Quartz, Rock Crystal, Agate and the skill of the Chinese sculptor is reforking off on either side of it in 1991, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the pur like in which they worked--has per-vealed at its best. for here he dis haps been the means of diverting the plays his 'ingenuity a utilizing the

agreeable symmetry. anation of collectors and others from natural contrast of the colbars of a beautiful statue, and against it stands In front of the building is a tall and a right appreciation of these carvings store séch as the red and white of a cordon of stationary cars, which to, instead, a study of the wonderful the cartelian magnolia reproduced Icok neat and trim in the distance stores themselves with their intrinsic in The Studio, the red and white of The row of buildings is too massive beauties. Were these sculptures to the famous Fishes carved in agate and great to be compared with any be reproduced even in modelling clay and many examples of flowers and thing less than mountain ranges, and they would still remain objects for our fruits in parti-coloured jades and the roads look as if they are vertical | unstinted admiration.

other equally precious stones-an is-dog-outs in them, cut to the very base, genuity to which he does not seem 10 The policeman Low at the crossing, have sacrificed any of his inspiration. holds the traffic up with his potent The article, beautifully illustrated left arm, and the bus and the whole with official copyright photographs stream of vehicles that precede and several of which are in colour) speci- follow it come to a standstill. " ally supplied by the Victoria and then Museum. is but one of the to see the intensified trafic of Lon- That is the psychological moment many admirable features which grace don. At such a place, it is strange. the current issue of The Stadio the man'seems to play a minor par. He well-known monthly magazine of fice is somewhere perched in the inside and applied art. Modern Spanish of the car, and is too small to be Painting Valentin and Ramon de prominently, visible. Flowers are perhaps more deeply | Zubiaurre," by Margarita Nelken. The crossing is the meeting place understood and appreciated by the The Drawings Of Heary Edridge, of taxicabs. omnibuses, and all gig- Chinese than by any other nation not A.R.A.." by Frank Gibson, interest-antic automobiles There is perhaps excepting the Japanese whose half ing Studio Talk" by correspondents a horse or two, an obsolete cycle or humorous enthusiasm is so fatious: in all the important art centres, and so, also to be found, but essentially but Korin, the great Japanese artist excellent art ceviews, all, beautifully it is a roaring sea of automobiles and (well known in the West), approached illustrated, add to the attractiveness anything less is insignificant.

It is the purpose of these notes only to dwell on the Chinese canings of flowers and rule is hard-stones and not to deal with the figures, vases and other objects used in ceremonies and for a thousand other purposes. which the jade workers of long past ages have bequeathed to posterity: wege they concerned with the large cryings of settur stone and of wood which are secretly implied by "Chi nese Sevipiat.”

his flower subjects in the same spirit of the present number.

as the Chinese sculptors--with a re- verence akin to worship. These artists

are no mere copyists reproducing petal

- GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

commanding HLJMS "Nittaka

On February 7. Capt. N. Imamura

automatons. The coloured advertise-

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.

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FIRST TOURNAMENT MONDAY, 21st February, at 9 P.X.

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HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS,

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BY LIEUT-COLONEL L. G. BIRD, D.S.O. ADMINISTRATIVE COMMANDANT.

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GOLF COURSE at HAPPY VALLEY, MEMBERS are reminded that the will be CLOSED to play on SUNDAY, 13th February, 1921

L. S. GREENHILL,

Hon. Secretary Hongkong, February 11, 1991.

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They fly about, booting, noisy, and turbulent, in all the known points of the compass. Like swiftly mutable buildings, like faster ships on wheels, by petal some particular com.

like wooden huts of the Indian Rather they seem to have sought the

villages painted and put in motion essence of the flower-type--which

in all conceivable shapes, they re each blossom reveals in part and which the flowers of the whole tree

the closest intensity. present life worked into multiples of reveal complete. Take for instance called at Government House and was becomes more glorious and is not

Towards the evening the scene 1. Parades. the magnolia carving, shown in our received by H. E. the Governor. Jess intense. The lights in the shop lazy, will be held in accordance with may be ascertained on application to. first illustration (a beautiful carving Later HE the Governor's Alde-dewindows blaze and show to better Programme of Work. in white jade from the collection of Camp relurted the call Mrs. George Sheringham); the piece i On February 10, H.E. the Governor advantage' the fashionably clads. Musketry. carved from a flawless block of white gave a luncheon party.

No. 5. Platoon (Scarib) will fire. Jadeite how perfect the simplifica- | The guests present were:-Capt.ment bulbs have begun to Bath and Part IL Annual Musketry Gourse on tion of the sheath-like petals charac-N. Imamura, Lj.N., Commodore and to wink. The painted beauties on Sundays 20th and 27th, st King's Park teristic of the fewer! Many seasons Mrs, Bowden Smith, Capt. E.R.GR the footpaths have multiplied. Range, commencing both days, at{10 must have passed. generations of Evans, R.N., C.B., DS0. Mr. Stephen, Dazzling in the brilliant lights are am magnolias blossomed and fallen while Commander Turner, RN, D.S.O, windows, sace windows, and the will fire Part IInd Sanday, 27th is

the haberdashery windows, jewellery

Mounted Infantry Sectio1 this nameless Chinese sculptor labour- Mrs. Berners. ed with amazing concentration and in-.

Officer for Firing Point: 2nd Lieut finite patience-shaping the jade with

Possibly the street where you are. W. HII MC. his ruby drill and diamond-sand and The seamen's institute for Kobe a long and regular array of globe

meanders to the right or the left and 8 Mounted Infantry Section never relinquishing for a moment his which was opened some time ago at lights

Parada Polo Ground on Friday, original conception of a flower formed the cost of Y.20,000 contributed by displaying an irresistible charm. Optional.

meanders along with it, 18th instant, at 5.30 p.m. Dress from a precious stone, which should some Kobe shipping agencies, is to be And the buildings themselves in the Cadet Company. present as a single blood the symbol closed by the end of February. This back strongly represent a beautiful

MACKINNON MACKENZIE & Co. and essence of all magnolia flowers.

Parade at Headquarters on Tuesday, 16, Strand Road, In these days there is much talk of sion and the consequent difficulty of

is attributed to the economic depres- and huge train at a turning.

15th instant, at 5:30 p.m.

CALCUTTA. jade. the bright green variety of getting in the subscriptions promised Milky Way on earth. Nothing that

It is a great, a beautiful, a dazzling Dreas: Drill Order. jadeite being the favourite in popular

Hongkong, January 27, 1921. esteer in England and France, and

the Eastern eye has seen hitherto can certainly it has a rare and a beautiful

compare "with London's intensity. colour; bur among those like the Chi- the foundation

This being the anniversary of vastness, splendour and glory, ex- nese, who study jade" in its great Empire, all the warships in harbour, of the natural Himalayas.

of the Japanese cepting perhaps the imposing beauty. variety of colours and tones, it is not of several nationalities, were dress- considered the most beautiful. The ed with flags in honour of the Chinese prefer though it suite occasion, and saltutes were fired at

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G.-F.-E. RAPSON, Bt.-Major, Adjutant, H. K. Y. D. Corps.

TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.

Growing in Hongkong," invaluable ALL preliminary notices of forth

An interesting booklet on "Rose somewhat paradoxical-every white noon. jade that has a colour, and is of a size

for anyone who wishes to cultivate coming meetings, lectures and large enough to give the carver an

roses in this climate, to which the entertainments, sent for insertion in According to Shipping and Ex usual literature on the subject does opportunity of giving form to his ideal gineering the N.Y.K. "Inaba Maru" not apply, has been written by the news columns of the China Mail, conceptions. Certainly of the car is to be withdrawn from the European Mr. R. A. Nicholson, whose garden are charged for at the rate of $1 each, ings that reach this country it is not run and replaced by the Katori at the Cosmopolitan Dock is (as announced in May and June of

the bright green specimens that are Maru" from the North American sex-famous in these parts. It is published last year) providing that they do not the best as sculptures; it is generally vice. The "Cap Finisterre" will, it is by the Hongkong Horticultural occupy more than four lines.

columns at the prevailing rates.

In

the jade of other colours than the stated, take the place of the "Katori Society. The book gives advice what future if this space is exceeded they bright green that are the finer works Maru" on the American line. of art. The high prices paid for smail snd often very poorly carved green pieces is due to mere fashion among wealthy ladies who regard these as "mascots" and becoming personal zdornments.

to plant, and directions how to plant will be placed in the advertising it and care for it. The price of the Mr. Lalchand Watanmal, Pro- booklet is fifty cents for all but prietor of Messrs. Watanmal Bool-members of the Society, to whom it chand Co. (silic exporters) left by is free...

Empress of Russia" for Yokohama to visit his offices there which were The right appreciation of jades is opened in bis absence, two years not confined to the single sense of back. He will retorn sight to barde pisos of finely Mishima Mara" for home. Daring by s.s. sculptured jede is a keen pleasure to his absence Mr. P. Parsram will those whose sense of touch is deve act as manager of the Hongkong recommandation is required 1 For sale Joped Indeed some collector might offices.

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