“The evidence is complete that the Classical Books of China have come down from at least a century before our era, substantially the same as we have them at present.”—­Legge, Vol.  I. Chap. 1.  Sec. 2.

The Four Books have been translated into French, German, and English.  Dr. Marshman translated the Lun-Yu.  Mr. Collie afterward published at Calcutta the Four Books.  But within a few years the labors of previous sinologues have been almost superseded by Dr. Legge’s splendid work, still in process of publication.  We have, as yet, only the volumes containing the Four Books of Confucius and his successors, and a portion of the Kings.  Dr. Legge’s work is in Chinese and English, with copious notes and extracts from many Chinese commentators.  In his notes, and his preliminary dissertations, he endeavors to do justice to Confucius and his doctrines.  Perhaps he does not fully succeed in this, but it is evident that he respects the Chinese sage, and is never willingly unfair to him.  If to the books above mentioned be added the works, of Pauthier, Stanislas Julien, Mohl, and other French sinologues, and the German works on the same subject we have a sufficient apparatus for the study of Chinese thought.

[13] “On the top of his head was a remarkable formation, in consequence of which he was named Kew.”—­Legge, Vol.  I. Chap.  VI. (note).

[14] Meadows, “The Chinese and their Rebellions,” p. 332.

[15] Meadows, p. 342.

[16] “Le Tao-te-king, le livre de la voie et de la vertu, compose dans, la vie siecle avant l’ere Chretienne, par le philosophe Lao-tseu, traduit par Stanislas Julien.  Paris, 1842.”

[17] “Le livre des Recompenses et des Peines.  Julien, 1835.”

[18] “Seyn and Nichte ist Dasselbe.”  Hegel.

[19] “The meek shall inherit the earth.”

[20] See “La Magie et l’Astrologie, par Alfred Maury.”

[21] Was it some pale reflection of this Oriental philosophy which took form in the ode of Horace, “Integer vitae” (i. 22), in which he describes the portentous wolf which fled from him?

[22] Meadows, p. 28.

[23] Meadows, p. 18.

[24] Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh; The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution, by Lin-Le, special agent of the Ti-Ping General-in-Chief, &c.  Davy and Son, London, 1866.  Vol. 1. p. 806.

Mr. Andrew Wilson, author of “The Ever-Victorious Army” (Blackwood, 1868), speaks with much contempt of Lin-Le’s book.  In a note (page 389) he brings, certain charges against the author.  Mr. Wilson’s book is written to glorify Gordon, Wood, and others, who accepted roving commissions against the Ti-Pings; and of course he takes their view of the insurrection.  The accusations he brings against Lin-Le, even if correct, do not detract from the apparent accuracy of that writer’s story, nor from the weight of his arguments.

[25] Ibid., Vol.  I. p. 315.  These forms are given, says the writer, partly from memory.