To the Editor of the Sit,—The question J.AJ. was not the Mayers' "Chinese Reader's Ma Prof, Giles' gratitude for help derived from hin predecessors, hia reply the Professor says that I Biographical Dictionary was "to a feertain. extent based upon the biographies given by Mayers," but no auch indebtedness is hinted at in his Preface.
And if he must, at this date, ex mfatake, ty vious that he should choose to call atten-[Tan to the article "FTW Kan (Vu) Pao. Tt is one he seems to have copied Mayers, adding the word "supernatural, ting a useful date anda reference to Wylie's "Chinese Literatare;" inserting a little more at the last moment on a page of addenda. Nor "Fis YG x very serious mit 'The modern editions of the "Chi [shu and the Comnéreial Press'
jographieul Dictionary print Kan, but the man will be found deed under beth "fF the "New China Review" vol. 2, Dr. Lionel Giles and Dr. Perceval Yetts, who appear to have studied the question, both prefer Ya to the former' saying that a 'T'anse dynasty" manuseript—probably the
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