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is the most common and complete of all Chinese dictionaries for common use.

The I Wan Pi Lan (�Z������), ‘A Complete Exhibition of all the Authorized Characters,’ published in 1787; ‘furnishing,’ says Dr. Williams, ‘good definitions of all the common characters, whose ancient forms are explained.’

The Pei Wan Yun Fu (��������), generally known among foreigners as ‘The Kang-hsi Thesaurus.’ It was undertaken by an imperial order, and published in 1711, being probably, as Wylie says, ‘the most extensive work of a lexicographical character ever produced.’ It does for the phraseology of Chinese literature all, and more than all, that the Kang-hsi dictionary does for the individual characters. The arrangement of the characters is according to their tones and final sounds. My copy of it, with a supplement published about ten years later, is in forty-five large volumes, with much more letter-press in it than the edition of the Dynastic Histories mentioned on p. 133.

The Ching Tsi Tswan Ku, ping Pu Wei (�g�y��(���W�W�U)���}�� ��), ‘A Digest of the Meanings in the Classical and other Books, with Supplement,’ by, or rather under the superintendence of, Yuan Yuan (p. 132). This has often been found useful. It is arranged according to the tones and rhymes like the characters in the Thesaurus.

SECTION II.

TRANSLATIONS AND OTHER WORKS.

CONFUCIUS SINARUM PHILOSOPHUS; sive Scientia Sinensis Latine Exposita. Studio et opera Prosperi Intorcetta, Christiani Herdritch, Francisci Rougemont, Philippi Couplet, Patrum Societatis JESU. Jussu Ludovici Magni. Parisiis, 1837.

THE WORKS OF CONFUCIUS; containing the Original Text, with a Translation. Vol. 1. By J. Marshman. Serampore, 1809. This is only a fragment of ‘The Works of Confucius.’

THE FOUR BOOKS; Translated into English, by Rev. David Collie, of the London Missionary Society. Malacca, 1828.

L’INVARIABLE MILIEU; Ouvrage Moral de Tseu-sse, en Chinois et en Mandchou, avec une Version litterale Latine, une Traduction Francoise, &c. &c. Par M. Abel-Remusat. A Paris, 1817.

LE TA HIO, OU LA GRANDE ETUDE; Traduit en Francoise, avec une Version Latine, &c. Par G. Pauthier. Paris, 1837.

Y-KING; Antiquissimus Sinarum Liber, quem ex Latina Interpretatione P. Regis, aliorumque ex Soc. JESU PP. edidit Julius Mohl. Stuttgartiae et Tubingae, 1839.

MEMOIRES concernant L’Histoire, Les Sciences, Les Arts, Les Moers, Les Usages, &c., des Chinois. Par les Missionaires de Pekin. A Paris, 1776-1814.

HISTOIRE GENERALE DE LA CHINE; ou Annales de cet Empire. Traduites du Tong-Kien-Kang-Mou. Par le feu Pere Joseph-Annie- Marie de Moyriac de Mailla, Jesuite Francoise, Missionaire a Pekin. A Paris, 1776-1785.

NOTITIA LINGUAE SINICAE. Auctore P. Premare. Malaccae, cura Academiae Anglo-Sinensis, 1831.

THE CHINESE REPOSITORY. Canton, China, 20 vols., 1832-

1851.

DICTIONNAIRE DES NOMS, Anciens et Modernes, des Villes et Arrondissements de Premier, Deuxieme, et Troisieme ordre, compris dans L’Empire Chinois, &c. Par Edouard Biot, Membre du Conseil de la Societe Asiatique. Paris, 1842.

THE CHINESE. By John Francis Davis, Esq., F.R.S., &c. In two volumes. London, 1836.

CHINA: its State and Prospects. By W. H. Medhurst, D. D., of the London Missionary Society. London, 1838.

L’UNIVERS: Histoire et Description des tous les Peuples. Chine. Par M. G. Pauthier. Paris, 1838.

HISTORY OF CHINA, from the earliest Records to the Treaty with Great Britain in 1842. By Thomas Thornton, Esq., Member of the Royal Asiatic Society. In two volumes. London, 1844.

THE MIDDLE KINGDOM: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Education, Social Life, Arts, Religion, &c., of the Chinese Empire. By S. Wells Williams, LL.D. In two volumes. New York and London, 1848. The Second Edition, Revised, 1883.

THE RELIGIOUS CONDITION OF THE CHINESE. By Rev. Joseph Edkins, B. A., of the London Missionary Society. London, 1859.

CHRIST AND OTHER MASTERS. By Charles Hardwood, M. A., Christian Advocate in the University of Cambridge. Part III. Religions of China, America, and Oceanica. Cambridge, 1858.

INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF. CHINESE CHARACTERS. By J. Edkins, D.D. London, 1876.

THE STRUCTURE OF CHINESE CHARACTERS, under 300 Primary Forms. By John Chalmers, M.A., LL.D. Aberdeen, 1882.

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