Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-22
THE AWAKENING OF CHINA. Ry W

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president of the Chinese imperial
University, author of "A Cycle of
Cathay." etc Illustrated from photo
graphs New York: Doubleday. Page
q Co. Washington: Woodward &
Lothrop.
"China is the theater of the greatest
movement" says DIR. Martin. now taking
place on the face of the globe. In COM
parison with It, the agitation in Russia
shrinls to nsignifcance. for it is not po-
ItIcal but social Its object is not a
changed dynasty. nor a revolution in the
form of government: but, with higher aim
and deeper motive. 1t promises nothing
short of the complete renovation of the
Oldest. most populous and most conservative
Of empires
DR. Martin believes that the awakening of
this huge neighbor of Japan is destined to
Weld results of a startling nature, carried
out on a vastly extended scale. Every day
adds its testimony, he maintains, to the
depth and genunoness of the movement in
the direction of reform The army and
navy are being rohabilitatcd, women are
Incoming intellectually enancipated. the
council of state is carrying into effect re-
form proposals, and Chinese newspapers
Hre discussing the question of a national
religion. DIR. Martin considers the empire
In outline, treating under special heading
the dominating sections China Proper Flu
kien. Chehkiang, Kiangsu Shantung Chihle
Honan, the river provinces and outlying
territories. He gives much time to the his
tory of the empire up to the eighteenth CEN
Curry. and in his dominating part speaks of
China in transformation. FTe makes the
opening OF the great oriental nation a
drama in five acts, with God in history.
The acts are the opium war, the arrow
war, the war with France, with Japan, and
of the Boxers. The influence of the Russo
Japanese war is traced. and the influence of
the Viceroy Chang and the matter of anti
foreign agitation carefully treated. The
book is handsomely and Interestingly illus
trated.
THE GEORGE A. HEARN GIFT tn the
metropolitan Museum of Art in the
City of New York in the Year MI MVI.
New York: Printed for the Museum.
This very sumptuously prepared cata-
logue of the George A. Hearn gift to the
} etropolitan Museum of Art is significant
in several particulars. The catalogue is
not only completely illustrated with repro
auctions from negatives made expressly for
this catalogue by Mr.. Charles Ballard, but
full and satisfactory critical and biographi-
cal notes accompany each picture With
the pictures and notes the letters pass
ing between the donor and the trustees of
the museum at the time of the acceptance
of the gift. To Americans the most inter
esting feature of the donation is the pre-
sentation of 100000 fund for the pur-
chase of pictures by American artists. Mr.
Hearn presented an additional S25 900 In
order that means might be Immediately
available as purchase money to the amount
of 5000 annually for American pictures.
lie says, after enumerating his pictures as
~rf-I, "
American:
The American We're purposely hung in
the gallery to show that good American
pictures can hold their own against the
foreigners; I never having Disseminated
in making purchases. the test always being,
is the picture good?' and the only prefer
ence being to buy the American when quail
fy and value were equal" Mr.. Hearn's
gift will not only be appreciated by all art
lovers. but his sturdy Amercanism be ap-
plauded by all discriminating patriots.
ELLEN TERRY BY Christopher ST.
John. With sixteen full-page Eiustra-
tons of stars of the stage. New York:
John Lane Company.
Beauty has been the approach and the
medium of Ellen Terry's art She has
interpreted the characters she has been
famous in not so much through her intel
lect as through her sense of beauty. Men
and women, ii has been well said did not
admire her talent merely, they fell in love
with her and the charm has lasted for fifty
years. Mr.. st. Johns little book presents
the record of her achievements with salts
flying fullness and much sympathy He
has followed the examples OF all others
who have become associated with her. He
asks quite naively, who is going to de-
eide the limits of the personality of Ellen
Terry? 1t is said abroad that it is tender
and womanly; generous and impulsive;
more full of sun and things than of the
moon and shadows. Yet like all very sim
pie people she is too complex to be sum-
med up so easily. and to make a definite
statement about her is to wonder the next
minute if it is true. Her father was an
lrishman and her mother a Scotswoman.
That Is the most illuminating thing L
know about her. Happily the time has
not come TO sum up her life or her char