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On Marco Polo's omissions see Yule, op. cit., I, Introd., p. 110. Marco Polo, op. cit., p. 288. VI of this book on the art which flourished under the Mongol dynasty is interesting. See also L. Binyon, Painting in the Far East , pp. 75-7, 146-7. One of Chao Mêng-fu's horse pictures, or rather a copy of it by a Japanese artist, is reproduced in Giles, op. cit., opposite p. 159.
A fine description of it is given by Mr Laurence Binyon: 'In the British Museum collection is a long roll, over seventeen feet long, painted almost entirely in blues and greens on the usual warm brown silk.... It is one continuous landscape, in which the scenes melt into one another.
It is possible that a philosophic idea is intended to be suggested the passage of the soul through the pleasant delights of earth to the contemplation of the infinite. Laurence Binyon, Painting in the Far East , pp. 75-6.
Perhaps what he had really said was, "Squire, Binyon, and Shanks," or "Childe, Blunden, and Earp," or even "Abercrombie, Drinkwater, and Rabindranath Tagore." Perhaps. But then her ears never did play her false. "Blight, Mildew, and Smut." The impression was distinct and ineffaceable.
What are the conditions?" The mysterious stranger paused for a moment. "Have you, of late, formed an acquaintance of a certain Mrs. Bond, a widow?" "I met her recently in South Kensington, at the house of a friend of my mother, Mrs. Binyon. Why?" "How many times have you met her?" "Two or I think three. She came to tea with us the day before we came up here." "H'm!
LAWRENCE BINYON, author of many lyrics and poetic dramas, Assistant Keeper in the British Museum, in charge of Oriental Prints and Drawings. ANDREW CECIL BRADLEY, critic, sometime Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, author of a standard work on Shakespeare. ROBERT BRIDGES, Poet-Laureate. Prominent as a physician before his poetry brought him the high honor he now enjoys.
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