LITERATURES OF THE WORLD. 
Edited by EDMUND GOSSE, 
Hon. M. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. 
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Chinese Literature. 
By HERBERT A. GILES, M. A., LL. D. (Aberd.), 
Professor of Chinese in the University of 
Cambridge. 
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