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Muneyoshi Yanagi, who recently lectured in the Fine Arts Department, has arranged the display. Examples of English and Japanese weaving and pottery are its features. In speaking of his work, Yanagi says, "The present exhibition of pottery, textiles, lacquer and metal work of Japanese and English workers is especially noteworthy because in it is shown in America for the first time the work of a group of people who are wholly uninfluenced by methods of modern commercial production. In so far as these methods detract from the quality, beauty, and vitality of things made for personal or domestic...
Among the particular features that have been outlined are models of cities in concrete, stone or other material on a uniform scale, models of the great industrial plants on a scale somewhat larger than that of the vertical scale for the geological and geographical display...
...exhibitions have been opened to the public in the Fogg Art Museum. The lithographic work of J. N. Rosenberg will be on display until January 20 and an exposition of Persian painting will be open until February 13. A lecture on "Flemish Military Tapestries" will be given in the Large Lecture Hall in Fogg Museum on Monday, at 4.30 o'clock, by A. J. B. Wace, of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London...
With Christmas now at hand there is a display in the Treasure Room of Widener Library, appropriate to the season. This collection consists of a number of different sorts of volumes of Christmas Carols, Songs, stories, and so forth. One of the two show-cases is quite resplendent with the characteristic bright reds, blues, and golds of illuminated manuscripts, many of which illustrate typical Christmas scenes such as the nativity. One of the most noticeable of these is "A Booke of Christmas Carols" illuminated from ancient manuscripts in the British Museum. This was edited by Joseph Cundall in London...
Americans hear and read so often of the French view, that the horde of tourists from the United States annually visiting that country are loud, ill-bred, uncouth and make a vulgar display of money, that one wonders why the "retort courteous" is not more often resorted...