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CHAPTER VII
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to the Hist, of Chinese Pictorial Art_ (2nd ed., 1918) facing p.

56; and in L.Binyon, _op.cit_., plate III (facing p.

66).

It is exceedingly interesting to compare this landscape roll with the MS of Marco Polo, illuminated about a century later, from which the scene of the embarkation at Venice has been taken; the one is so obviously the work of a highly developed and the other of an almost naive and childish civilization.
PLATE IV.

_Madame Eglentyne at home_ This is a page from a fine manuscript of _La Sainte Abbaye_, now in the British Museum (MS.Add.39843, f.


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