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were of great interest, and as many more Yuan portraits and figures of horsemen were nearly as beautiful and even more decorative. 
The Ming Academy paintings, and certain unclassible paintings of that period, were particularly well chosen considering the great amount of such material which must exist in Paris.
Among the Japanese paintings were two Kamakura or early Ashikaga Buddhist pictures, one of the portrait of a Zen priest and the other a figure of a Rakkan. 
The arrangement of reproductions from the frescoes of the Ajanta caves in India gave an admirable impression of sixth century Indian art. 
After reviewing this exhibition of paintings, I regretfully came to the conclusion that when the American School of arch^[[^a]]eology in Peking shall in the future, invite a loan exhibition of pictures the foreign residents of China would hardly produce so representative and well chosen a group as was found in Paris. It may be hoped that, among other by-products of our activities in China, we may stimulate among foreigners an interest in and appreciation of the native arts. 
A note concerning the art dealers of Paris, and their collections, will not be out of place in this report. For, though I explained to them that I was not able to make purchases even if I had been inclined, they were uniformly generous in showing me their specimens and in discussing the problems which occurred in connection with them. In many

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