ge, te and admire zeal for literature, and t of th in China.

    A GREAt SINOLOGUE

    Don  t forget to be a gentleman of sense, -o be a great scholar ;

    Don t become a fool, o be a great scholar .

    Confucius Sayings, Ch:VI. II.

    I ely been reading Dr. Giles quot;Adversaria Sinica, quot; and in reading tis quot;ws in C;

    Dr. Giles ation of being a great City of ation is not undeserved. But I t is noime t an attempt so accurately estimate ty and real value of Dr. Giles work.

    In one respect Dr. Giles age over all sinologues past and present,_erary gift: e good idiomatic Englis on tterly lacks t and sometimes even common sense. ranslate Cences, but  interpret and understand C. In t. Dr. Giles eristics as terati. Confucius says, quot;ion or book learning get tter of tural qualities, terati.quot;

    to terati, books and literature are merely materials for ing books and so te books upon books. to do  never occurs to terati t books and literature are only means to an end. tudy of books and literature to true sc to enable o inter-

    pret, to criticise, to understand human life.

    Matt;It is terature, _tire ory of t, _or of a single great literary ed erature makes itself felt. quot; But in all t Dr. Giles ten, t a single sentence  t Dr. Giles ried to conceive terature as a connected whole.

    It is t of p in Dr. Giles ance  dictionary. It is in no sense a dictionary at all. It is merely a collection of Cences, translated by Dr. Gi