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Press reports received recently in this country state that Guatemala has decided to abandon the use of subsidiary coins made of hard rubber, and is to adopt coins of German manufacture which are to be made of porcelain. No longer can the spendthrift Guatemalan carelessly toss his extra pesos to the street urchins, knowing that if they fail to catch them on the fly they will get them on the rebound; now, alas, the coins upon striking the paving will be shattered into a thousand pleces, valueless as a means of exchange and effective only in puncturing automobile tires...
...addition to the gift of a very large collection of fine Japanese prints) 10 watercolor drawings by Dodge MacKnight; three watercolors, one by J. M. W. Turner; five important Japanese screens; two important Japanese paintings; one splendid Chinese painting of a Corean gentleman; and important examples of Chinese porcelain...
Under the auspices of the Department of Western Art in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Mr. William Hagerman Graves, formerly president of the Grueby Pottery Company, will speak on "Majolica and Porcelain," in the Western Art Study Room tomorrow at 2.45 o'clock...
...large collections of Chinese porcelain and oriental painting and sculpture, lent by Miss Margaret Thomas, Dr. D. W. Ross, and others, are still on exhibition and will remain for the present...
...European illuminated manuscripts, Ient by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan '89; Mr. W. A. White '63; and others. At the same time there will be exhibited in two rooms on the main floor a collection of examples of the arts of China and Japan, consisting of paintings, pottery and porcelain...