1 MARCH 1919, Page 19

The new School of Oriental Studios at the London Institution

is now so well established as to publish a Bulletin (6s. not). In the second number, which has just appeared, will be found, among other articles, notes by Dr. Glee on the curious Nestorian monument at Sianfu, an interesting paper on Hausa by Mr. J. W. Gill, and the first English versions, by Mr. Waley, of some ninth-century Chinese poems by Po Chu-f. The poet's My humour, if not his lyrical quality, is apparent in the translation of the "Lazy Man's Song" or in "Parting from the Winter Stove," which begins with the conventional praise of spring and ends with the human touch :—

"Yet still in my heart there lingers one regret; Boon I shall part with the flame of my red stove.