22 ADVERTISEMENT. 



owe so many useful works. It is necessary to struggle every moment, 

 and, perhaps, without help, against the difficulties of the most redun- 

 dant and complicated of all the languages. The obstacles infinitely 

 multiply, if the text to be translated be full of technical terms and 

 details, and if the difficulties of a subject which is strange to it, be 

 joined to the difficulties of the language. 



Such are the difficulties I have met with, in the course of my trans- 

 lation, I hope they will serve as an excuse for the faults which have 

 escaped me, and that they will give me some title to the indulgence 

 of learned men, and men of the world. 



STANISLAS JULIEN. 

 PARIS, 15th March, 1837. 



