128 RECENT BOOKS BY A CHINESE SCHOLAR 



tion of the characters found in inscriptions on bones, and the 

 second volume is supplementary to the first. These bone 

 inscriptions are compared with statements in the earliest 

 historical writings, with inscriptions on bronzes, and with the 

 method of writing these characters adopted by Hsu Shen 

 in the Shuo Wen. The previous work on this subject of 

 Liu T'leh-yiin is carefully examined and corrections made 

 where necessary in the opinion of the author. 



"Paper Money of Four Dynasties." (p$ $jj fi$ fg JH £|). 



Published in 1914. 



The four dynasties referred to are the Yuan, Chin, Ming, 

 and Ch'ing. The author, however, carries the subject to 

 remote antiquity in his introduction by stating that the 

 commencement of a token currency was earlier than the 

 invention of paper and that cloth strips, li pu, 35 were used 

 in the Chow Dynasty for money. There are seventeen 

 lithographic illustrations and a full explanation at the end 

 of the book of each of these. Several illustrations are those 

 of the copper plates from which notes were printed and the 

 earliest of these belongs to the second year of Cheng Yuan, 

 a.d. 1154. 



"Other Bone Eelics of Liu T'ieh-yun." (® H j® ® 2. &). 



Published in 1915. 



This contains lithographic reproductions of forty inscrip- 

 tions on bones from the collection of Liu T'ieh-yiin without 

 notes or discussion . 



"Ink Shadows (Silhouettes) of Stone Inscriptions of the 



Han and Ch'in Dynasties." (if 5i|^). 



Published in 1915. 



This is a discussion of the inscriptions on several stones 

 discovered in recent years. One was found on a stone in 

 Shao-t'ung Fu, Yunnan province, another during mining- 

 operations in Szechuan, a third was on a stone lion in front 

 of a Yamen (place not mentioned) in Shantung, and a fourth 

 was on a horse -trough in Lo-yang, Honan province. All of 

 the inscriptions mentioned were fragments and the author 

 speculates from them as to the age and identity of the 

 objects on which the writing is found. 



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