The local Sino-British Students Club have purchased a set of the Chinese Classical Library for the purpose of presenting it to the British Museum. The present is intended as a token of the kind regard and affection felt by the members of the club towards their old friends in Great Britain. The Library consists of over 3,000 volumes, published by the Commercial Press, Ld., of practically all the noteworthy Chinese classical authors on various subjects of study. It is, next to the Emperor Chien Lung's collection of which there are only four copies in China, the largest collection of books ever published in China.
A very interesting feature possessed by the Library is that a great many of the books in the collection are facsimile reproductions of rare old editions of the Sung, Yuan and Ming dynasties. And its popularity is shown by the fact that the whole of the first and second editions have been taken up by subscribers in China and Japan. The Library will be taken home by Sir James Stewart Lockhart, who will also make the presentation on behalf of the Club.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.