Oc OWN Connesroxoenr, Peking, Sept. 9.
The authorities responsible for the reproduction of the famous Chinese encyclopedia have compiled figures to show the mammoth nature of the undertaking. According to there figures, the task will take over ten ars to complete, and will cost about.
ix and a-half million dollars.
The volumes cover three million pages, and the cost in paper alone of 200 complete sets would be two and half million dollars. It is hoped to make the copies as nearly like the originals as possi and og there are over 80,000 volumes in the encyclopedia, this would mean the binding of seven million books.
It is proposed to excute the work by photographic process, and this
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.