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...China", writes Marcel Rouff in an article reprinted in the current "Living Age", "offers the world an unprecedented example of a nation wise enough not to be led astray by our stupidly standardized civilization". The author recalls that this even-tempered nation of the Orient herself represents a mature and wise civilization which has escaped the ruinous fate of Babylon, Greece, and Rome, and the annihilation which we are told awaits the Occident in its headlong flight. And today, M. Rouff adds, China embraces four hundred million peaceful souls, fearless of death and sublimely happy, loyal, content, filled with self...
...grave problem M. Rouff presents. The nations would extend their hand to the Orient, to draw her from her peaceful worship of the philosophical gods that she may taste of the romance of international commerce. But, M. Rouff says, China will not submit to the proffered modernization. She will not make merchants of her mandarins; she will keep her narrow streets and rickshaws and pagodas while the West goes its way to destruction...
...Norton, Lecturer of the Archaeological institute of America for 1922, will lecture before the Society on Monday afternoon at 4.30, in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum. Professor Strzygowski is a world authority on Early Christian and Renaissance Art, and author of the new well-known book "Orient oder Rom", and other works. The subject of his lecture will be "Iranian Landscape and Northern Art". The lecture will be illustrated with lantern slides and will be open to the public...
This year the Dramatic Club is continuing its policy of producing foreign plays not likely to be seen in the United States. But the club is again avoiding the conventional by not going to Europe or the Orient for its material, but to South America. Our sister-continent, especially Argentina, its most progressive state, is rapidly passing the formative period and settling down into a stage of civilization in which the fine arts and literature find fertile soil. These dramas of the Argentine are among the first South American products of the new movement that have reached us. They show...
...relation of East and West with reference to the colonies and settlements of western nations in the Orient and their influence on the development of oriental peoples...