Chinese horrors and persecutions of the Christians; containing a full account of the great insurrection in China; atrocities of the "Boxers" ..together with the complete history of China down to the present time .. . PORCELAIN VASES OF NORTHERN CHINA, 251 252 CHINA: PAST AND PRESENT. cept by the Japanese, and in the beauty oftheir miniature painting they have few skilful use of his brush which everyschoolboy has to gain in copying the heir-oglyphic characters of the language accus-toms him to sketch forms with accuracy, andgives him an assured confidence in the draw-ing of his outli
Chinese horrors and persecutions of the Christians; containing a full account of the great insurrection in China; atrocities of the "Boxers" ..together with the complete history of China down to the present time .. . PORCELAIN VASES OF NORTHERN CHINA, 251 252 CHINA: PAST AND PRESENT. cept by the Japanese, and in the beauty oftheir miniature painting they have few skilful use of his brush which everyschoolboy has to gain in copying the heir-oglyphic characters of the language accus-toms him to sketch forms with accuracy, andgives him an assured confidence in the draw-ing of his outlines. Skillful Draughtsmen. As, in addition, he is habituated to theuse of Indian ink instead of lead pencils, heis aware that a false line must always remainagainst him as evidence of his want of mastery thus acquired gives him thatwonderful power of unfalteringly expressingon paper the scenes he wishes to delineatewhich so often excites the astonishment offoreign draughtsmen. This practice with the brush stands theminiature painter in equally good stead, andenables him to lay on his colors with suchcertainty, and with so unfailing a steadinessof hand and eye, that he is able to representwith clearn
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