For the period of about a month a very remarkable collection of Oriental paintings will be on exhibition in the Fogg Art Museum. The collection consists principally of Japanese, Chinese and Thibetan Buddhist paintings in one room, and in another a beautiful series of Japanese figure paintings, probably by the hand of Matahei, a great master of the early seventeenth century, which are lent by Dr. D. W. Ross '75. The great religious paintings of the world, whether of the East or of Europe, have more real vitality than any other class of paintings, for they express the deepest and highest ideals of great nations in great periods. The fact that the manner and technique of these masters is not realistic in our sense of the word makes their work more imaginative and more suggestive of the unseen. The Christian religion and the Buddhist both arose in Asia, the birth-place of religions. They then spread to Italy and Germany, and to China and Japan, where men could nobly express their ideals in art. An interesting comparison of the way religious art developed in the East and the West can be made in the Fogg Museum.

The first of a series of conferences to be held in the Fogg Museum this year will be given early in January by Mr. Langdon Warner '03, who will give a course on Oriental art in the second half year. Members of the Fine Arts Department and the staff of the Museum will always be glad to show the collection of the Museum to any who wish guidance.