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Title: The literary digest
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York : Funk & Wagnalls (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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redit. But the pile of land-tax biUsIs growing; I will go over and see my neighbor.Leaning on my staff. A writer in Poetry reminds us that inChina the arts of poetry and calligraphyhave their common root in the ideographswhich form the written language. It isrecalled also that in Lafcadio HearnsGlimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, ideo-graphs and the art of calligraphy arevividly described. In the following linesthe subject is the basis of an autobi-ographic note. CALLIGRAPHY By Liang Tung-shu(Eighteenth Century) The writmg of Li Po-hai Is like the vermilion bird And the blue-green dragon. It drifts slowly as clouds drift; It has the wide swiftness of wind. Hidden witliin it lurk the dragon and the tiger. The writing of Chia, the official. Is hke the liigh hat of ceremonial. It flashes like flowers in the hau-, And its music is the faint, sweet linkhng Of jade girdle-i)endants. But I stand beside the Lang Temple, Doing nothing And speaking not at all. The Literary Digest for March 1, 1919 S7
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