Lecture Ii

A CHINESE LIBRARY

The Cambridge (Eng.) Library--(A) The Confucian Canon--(B) Dynastic History--The "Historical Record"--The "Mirror of History"--Biography-- Encyclopædias--How arranged--Collections of Reprints--The Imperial Statutes--The Penal Code--(C) Geography--Topography--An Old Volume-- Account of Strange Nations--(D) Poetry--Novels--Romance of the Three Kingdoms--Plays--(E) Dictionaries--The Concordance--Its Arrangement-- Imperial Catalogue--Senior Classics ... 37