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A translator can have but one aim—to present the thought of the author faithfully. In this case an added responsibility is involved, since one who had so much to give to the world has been taken in his prime. M. Petrucci has written at length of art in the Far East in his exhaustive work La Philosophie de la Nature dans l’Art d’Extrême Orient and elsewhere, and has demonstrated the wide scope of his thought and learning. The form and style in Peintres Chinois are the result of much condensation of material and have thus presented problems in translation,. | CHINESE PAINTERS A CRITICAL STUDY BY RAPHAEL PETRUCCI TRANSLATED BY FRANCES SEAVER WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE BY LAURENCE BINYON OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND WITH TWENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS IN DUOTONE NEW YORK BRENTANO S PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT 1920 BY BRENTANO S All rights reserved THE PLIMPTON PRESS NORWOOD MASS U-S-A PREFACE A translator can have but one aim to present the thought of the author faithfully. In this case an added responsibility is involved since one who had so much to give to the world has been taken in his prime. M. Petrucci has written at length of art in the Far East in his exhaustive work La Philosophie de la Nature dans 1 Art d Extreme Orient and elsewhere and has demonstrated the wide scope of his thought and learning. The form and style in Peintres Chinois are the result of much condensation of material and have thus presented problems in translation to which earnest thought has been given. In deference to the author s wish the margin has not been overladen and only a short tribute by one able to speak of him from personal knowledge has been included together with a few footnotes and a short bibliography of works of reference indispensable to the student who will pursue this absorbing study. The translator takes this opportunity to make grateful acknowledgement of her debt to the authors named who have made such valuable information available and to those friends who have read the manuscript and made many helpful suggestions. FRANCES Seaver BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE In Raphael Petrucci who died early in 1917 the world has lost one of the ablest and most devoted students and interpreters of the art of the Far East. He was only forty-five years of age in the prime of his powers brimming with energy and full of enterprises that promised richly. Though he did not die in the field he was none the less a victim of the war. He had exhausted himself by his labours with the Belgian ambulances at La Panne for Belgium was his adopted country. He had a house in .