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translation and Notes and a vocabulary of ten pages. The Introduction 

 contains four sections, dealing with Tracts in Chinese Literature, 

 Popular Taoism. The authorship and date of the Kan Ying Pien, 

 Analysis of the Kan Ying Pien. The remarks on Chinese Tracts are 

 interesting and the account of Popular Taoism is on the whole a fair 

 one. But credit should have been given for the way in which Taoism 

 has peopled the minds of a quarter of the human race with a store of 

 imaginary persons, as well-known and popular in China as Robin Hood 

 or Jack the Giant Killer in England. Taoism is the Chinese fairyland. 

 In transliterating Chinese words Mr. Webster uses Wade's system 

 of spelling. He writes good English and his translation will be read 

 with pleasure by the general reader. "As shadow follows form 3 so are 

 good and evil requited" ; "to murmur against Heaven and blame men; 

 to rave at the wind and curse at the rain" ; are sentences from the 

 Kan Ying Pien that have become proverbial in China. The student of 

 Chinese will also welcome the translation, but it would be still more 

 welcome were it more literal. At times it is too diffuse. On page 21 

 (last line) it is hard to find any Chinese equivalent for "robbing them 

 for his own advantage," and many sentences might have been rendered 

 more accurately : e.g. on p. 28, line 1 |J£ "7» ?U ffjj = "not that these do 

 not fill you for the time being," instead of "these may, indeed, bring 

 temporary pleasure" ; on p. 22, line 7, ^ \ ifc J$| = "he seeks success 

 by shaming others," not "triumphs over another's disgrace" ; on p. 22, 

 line 9, /gj ^g $£ |jfc = "to escape dishonourably leaves him unashamed," 

 not "shamelessly excuses himself for his crimes." 



L. A. L. 



Ancient Chinese Paper Money as Described in a Chinese Work 

 on Numismatics. Proceedings of the American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences — June 1918. 



This is a translation of the Ch'iian Pu T'ung Chih by K. Tomito, 

 who writes a short Introduction dealing with the main principles he 

 has followed in turning the Chinese terms and words into English. 

 Mr. Andrew McF. Davis contributes the Foreword. In this we have 

 an account of the genesis of the book itself and a general survey of 

 Chinese paper notes. He treats the question historically and discusses 

 the sizes and designs on the face of the notes. Facsimiles of many 

 notes are given together with the seals attached to them. Except the 

 Seal characters these are plain enough. The illustrations have been 

 reproduced from the pages of the Ch'iian Pu T'ung Chih. The article 

 by Dr. S. W. Bushell in the Journal" of the Peking Oriental Society 

 has been freely drawn upon and discussed. We do not notice any 

 reference to the compilation of Ma Tuan Lin on the question of 



