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It is, perhaps, to be regretted, that a selection from the numerous- 

 King's Regulations was not included in the volume of rules. These 

 Regulations are made under the authority of the principal Order, and 

 deal generally with minor criminal offences. Harbour and pilotage 

 regulations are not of much general interest, but the regulations in- 

 clude provision, for example, against selling liquors and firearms 

 without a licence from the Consular authorities, provision against 

 travelling without passports, and provision for the registration of land, 

 provisions, one would think, of considerable interest, both to lawyers 

 and the general public. 



The two volumes under review can be heartily recommended to 

 lawyers, consuls, and readers with technical knowledge. For anyone 

 who has to make frequent reference to the Orders and rules, the 

 possession of these volumes would save time of much greater value 

 than their cost. The books are not calculated, and not intended, to 

 appeal to the general public. 



Outlines of Chinese Art. John C. Ferguson. Being the Scammon 

 Lectures for 1918. Published for the Art Institute of Chicago 

 by the University of Chicago Press, 1919. 

 These six impressive lectures begin with a general introduction to 

 the study of Chinese Art and deal with bronzes and jades, stones and 

 ceramics, calligraphy and painting. As recent study of Chinese Art 

 has been directed . largely toward painting, which has opened up a 

 wonderland hitherto unknown to the occidental ; so Dr. Ferguson 

 devotes greater space to painting and its interesting derivation from 

 literary art. The book is beautifully printed and profusely illustrated 

 not only by reproductions in black and white but also by "rubbings" 

 from actual specimens. 



The chief characteristic of the work is that the subject is 

 approached mainly from the Chinese point of view through detailed 

 knowledge of the Chinese records which are extraordinarily extensive. 

 This aspect has been hitherto largely hidden and Dr. Ferguson has 

 rendered a service to foreign students of Chinese Art, especially to 

 those who have not lived among the Chinese. The author holds that 

 Chinese art should be studied from the point of view of its own 

 standards which differ markedly from those of the Occident. Yet Art 

 must be founded on truth and not on conventions discordant with the 

 truth. Imaginative painting must not be so fantastic and grotesque 

 that it cannot reasonably be founded on truth. Artists do not see 

 nature in precisely the same way ; there is a wide personal equation 



