Most of our renders, whether or not students of Chinese, will learn with! pleasure that the Rev. Dr. Legge isi about to issue a critical translation of the Cu'ox-1'seu or the Sprixe axp Av-! Toux Annats of Confucius. Dr. Legge's! name in connection with the Chinese Classics is so well known, and the timate knowledge possessed. by him,) not only of the language, but of the) ft, native literature bearing on the subject) so marked, that little need be sai commendation of either. The Ch'an-Usea then is history of the State off Loo from the eighth century B.C. to the) time of Confucius. It was the work the last years of the sage's life, and was looked upon by him with more than parental affection, "It is the ' Spring; and Aatami' which will make men know me, and it is the 'Spring and) 'Autumn' which will make meu condemn! mo," were the words used by him with: reference to the work; and apparently: because such was the sage's opinion of his own handiwork, sach has beet the opinion expressed since by Chinese! students and Chinese commentators of every rank. The work has been in+ cluded amongst the Five Kings, and is to the present das looked up to as a model of history and statecraft. Notwithstanding, however, the epithets which the Chinese have been profuse in pouring on it, the book is compara
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