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The Chinese library which he has presented to the Bodleian, and which is now safely homed within its walls, com- prises, at a rough estimate, about 17,000 printo volumes, or pfa, as they are ented, and sons 150 manuscript scrolls! and paintings. Of such an enormeus mass of literature it is obviously impos- sible to give any adequate sleseription in these columns. We must content "our- selves with picking out a few of the finer works, more especially those that are at the present moment 4/12 view, in ther Bodleian Picture Gallery.
HING BOOKS.
Are there any Sung editions?" is the first question that will rush to the lips of the Chinese bibliophile It must be explained that, although printing was invented before the Sung dynasty (A.D. 960-1280), no specimens before that period. (except a few recently discovered by Dr. Stein in Central Asia) are known to survive, and even Song Imoky are very much rarer than our own fagurabula. Hence, it is beyond measure interesting to find three works in Mr. Backhouse's collretion which claim that distinction, The oldest and most important is entitled "Chun Ch'iu Ching Chuan Chi Chich," that is, The Spring and Autumn Aonals. of Confucius, with Tso's commentary, accompanied by explanatory notes
is a most voluminous work, filling four boxes each about a foot long; and if one further takes into account its beautiful typography
excellent mate of preservation, the sum of £6-10, at which it has been valued, cannot be regarded ag- excessivo, The work bears no date, but is assigned by Mr. Backhouse to the Year 1130 or thereabouts. Claser examination will be necessary before this conjectural date can be safely accepted There are two indoubted examples of Sung printing in this country with which to compare it. One is a single volume, containing part of a Buddhist satra, and dated 1099, to be seen in a show-case at the British Musim. The other is the "Tu Kung. It Shib Shih Chia Chi
Works of Tu
Fr." in volumes, at Cambridge, which cannot be carter than 1201.. ·Both
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of these books are printed on dark yellowish brown paper, whereas the paper of the volumes under consideration is of a much lighter shade, alanost white, in fact. On the other hand, secing that the work was, porchased from the Palace collections after the revolution of 1911, and contains marginal notes by Wu Hai, Ure well-known historiographer opponent of Buddhism who lived frore. 1340 to 1410, there can be but little doubt ns to its high antiquity.
'and'
That cannot be il with equal confidence of the Bext item, “The Family Sayings of Confucius," which, in the absence of any conclusive evidence either way, is on typographical grounds to be attributed rather to the Ming period. The last of the three is the Ku Chin Chi Yao," a very rare and interest- ing set of biographical records by Huang Chên, with marginal notes from the hand of the Manchu neble Jung Lu, who will be remembered as the favourite Minister of the Empress Dowager at the time of the Roxer rising Mr. Backhouso is mistaken in referring this work to somo date before 1085. If he had looked in the last, volume he would have found a men- tion of the death of the poet Su Ch'è in 1117. Moreover, the biography of the anthur, Huang Chên, in the Sung dynastie history, informs us that he took his doctor's degree in 1256, so that the [“Ko Chin Chi Yoo "
can only have been LAPTIAN CORP 175 published towards the very end of the dynasty, or more probably after the Mongol conquest. And that is precisely the conclusion to which one would in any cash drawn by the evidence of the printing which is in the cramped style so characteristic of the Yuan period.""
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Scarcely less precious than the very The A.L. str. Chine left Singapore for carly kooks are a number of superb Ming this port on the 23rd December, and will editions-the "Wu Lun arrive here on the 31st December.
instance, or Book of the Five Rulation The A.L. str. Koerher left Singapore ships (1447), the excessively rare 1473 for this port on the 26th December, and edition of Ssu-ma Kuang's Mirror of will arrive here on the 1st January. History," the Palace edition of Ma Tuning its place to have been comparatively
The Ben Line str. Bendoran, from lin's encyclopædia Wên, Hsien Tung Jeith and London, left Singapore for this Kao" (1524), and the "Ta Ming Hui port on the 28th December, and may be Tien," "Institutes of the Ming Dynasty," expected to arrive here on or about end printed in 1587 and now almost unpro- January,
curable. Even more important, in soms
CALLIGRAPHIC INSCRIPTIONS. The I.G.M. str. Princess Alice, which respects, in the earliest known editin
The calligraphic inscriptions by the Esdale, Mr. M. Eyysler, Mr. C. L Leff here on the 24th December; at 10 a.m., (1507) of the rare literary encyclopædia chang, and Lia Xung will appeal most! Harrub. Mr. I. L. Hotman, Mrs. Le Roy great masters Chuo atêng-tu, Tung Ch Goodrich, Mrs. W. E. Grifith, Mrs. W. B. arrived at Singapore on the 28th DecemWen Yean Ying Hua" ("Fair Flowers to those who have gone acquaintance with Hough, Mrs. M. K. Houston, Miss H, H.
from the Garden of Literature"), in the Chinese character. The H.A.L. str. Preussen lefu Singapore 1,000 chapters, compiled by the Sung fail to be interested in the strongly Houston, Miss C. Houston, Mr. and Mrs. Bus ne one can Houston, Miss J. Houston, Miss K. L. on the 38th December, a.m, and may be statesman Li Fang and others, expected here on or about the 3rd wonderful spicilegum was completed in Buddha," Tzu fisi, and of the world-B. V. Kissam, Mr. C. H. Leavitt, Mr. executed autographs of the UtdG. M.. John, Miss L. H. Kenney, Mrs. January, a.m.
887 and first printed, so far as we know, The C.P.R. str. Empress of dupan left in 1904. No edition of it has yet boen
renowned statesman Li Hung-chang. Wm. J. Littell. Dr. and Mrs. R. W. Yokohama on the 7th December, between seen in this country, and it is gratifying hand of a lineal descendant of Confucius; Miss K. I. Nash, Mr. C. A. Neff, Mr Another is of interest as coming from the Matson, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. McClelland, 2 and 4 p.m.
and the last is a truly magnificent piece and Mrs. J. F. Osborne, Mr. Wm. . of calligraphy by the great Manchu Reynolds Miss C, H. Rodel, Mr. J. E. Among the more recent encyclopedias Emperor Kang Hsi, who was contemporVebles, Mrs. A. vun Brincken, Mr. and the colossal Ka Chin Tu Simi Chiary with Lenis XIV. It will be noted Mrs. H. J. Wilkins, Mr. E. Wohlgemuth: Chéng" easily holds pride of place. The that, the ordinary form of each character and Mr. R. H. Worsley. copy included in his collection by Mr. has been added alongside in red.
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The Danish str. King left Karatsu on educed form this invaluable work, indispensable works of reference will be Even in its and purpose it is primarily intended to serve, Suffice it to say that all the the 28th December, and may be expected library in itself, takes up no fewer than found here, and many of them in dupli- hern en or about the 2nd January..
1,620 pén Incredible as it may seem, The Danish str. Tranquebar left Sabang there still existed in manuscript butacate, notably the set of 21 dynastic December 01-Dunbar, Glenroy, Hyson, pected here on or about the 2nd January, accurately, if we have regard to its thing to be looked for is a good descrip- on the 24th December, and may be exfew years ago anayeiondia or more histories, the fine Palace edition of which Indrus, Peking, Sumatra, Melford Holl
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