Part 128

今世泥孔子之言以爲兵書不足觀又泥趙括徒能讀父書之言以爲成法不足用又見兵書有 權謀有反間以爲非聖人之法皆不知吾儒之學者吏之治事可習而能然古人猶有學製之懼兵凶戰危 將不素習未可以人命爲嘗試則十三篇之不可不觀也.

Better known as Hsiang 羽 Yü [B.C. 233–202].

The third among the 五伯 (or 霸) enumerated on p. 141. For the incident referred to, see Tso Chuan, 僖公, XXII. 4.

See supra, p. xvi, note 4.

Shih Chi, ch. 47, f. 7 r^o.

Ibid., ch. 38, f. 8 v^o.

項梁教籍兵法籍略知其意不肯竟學卒以傾覆不知兵法之弊可勝言哉宋襄徐偃仁而敗兵 者危機當用權謀孔子猶有要盟勿信微服過宋之時安得妄責孫子以言之不純哉.

其時去古未遠三代遺規往往於此書見之.

其最古者當以孫子吳子司馬法爲本大抵生聚訓練之術權謀運用之宜而已.

See p. 174. Further details on T‘ai Kung will be found in the Shih Chi, ch. 32 ad init. Besides the tradition which makes him a former minister of Chou Hsin, two other accounts of him are there given, according to which he would appear to have been first raised from a humble private station by Wên Wang.

其文義不類三代.

其言多近於正與戰國權謀頗殊.

See Han Shu, 張良傳, ch. 40. The work is there called 太公兵法. Hence it has been confused with the Liu T‘ao. The T‘u Shu attributes both the Liu T‘ao and the San Lüeh to T‘ai Kung.

其文不類秦漢間書漢光武帝詔雖嘗引之安知非反摭詔中所引二語以證實其書謂之北宋 以前舊本則可矣. Another work said to have been written by Huang-shih Kung, and also included in the military section of the Imperial Catalogue, is the 素書 Su Shu in 1 chüan. A short ethical treatise of Taoist savour, having no reference whatever to war, it is pronounced a forgery from the hand of 張商英 Chang Shang-ying (d. 1121), who edited it with commentary. Correct Wylie’s “Notes,” new edition, p. 90, and Courant’s “Catalogue des Livres Chinois,” no. 5056.

其書雖僞亦出於有學識謀略者之手也. We are told in the 讀書志 that the above six works, together with Sun Tzŭ, were those prescribed for military training in the 元豐 period (1078–85). See Yü Hai, ch. 140, f. 4 r^o.

Also written 握機經 and 幄機經 Wu Chi Ching.

其言具有條理.

“Words on Wellington,” by Sir W. Fraser.

“Forty-one Years in India,” chap. 46.

See Col. Henderson’s biography of Stonewall Jackson, 1902 ed., vol. II, p. 490.

See Col. Henderson, op. cit. vol. I. p. 426.

For a number of maxims on this head, see “Marshal Turenne” (Longmans, 1907), p. 29.

“Marshal Turenne,” p. 50.

“Aids to Scouting,” p. 26.

See “Pensées de Napoléon I^{er},” no. 47.

“The Science of War,” chap. 2.

“Aids to Scouting,” p. xii.

“Maximes de Guerre,” no. 72.