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CHINESE TAKING THEIR BIRDS '1'0
HEAR THE WILD BIRDS SIN G
TREASURE HUNTING IN CHINA
Mysterious to-day as through her age-long life, China holds
secrets still from the most persistent of collectors, the most eager
votaries of beauty-who would translate the beauty for Western
veneration. Yielding veritable treasures in one way or another
through the years, she ever keeps more hidden, hence the happy
surprises which fortunate searchers meet and transport with the
recurring seasons. One seeing the works of Chinese art brought
to Paris, London and New York year after year might suppose
