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VARIETIES, Lirzrary Anp PuitosoPHicat. 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
* «Authentic Communications for this Article will always beithankfully reieeved. 
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W= are happy to inform the Public, - 
that fome valuable Manufcripts, 
comprifing various Letters from the pen of 
Mr. RicHarDsON, the author of Cla- 
riffla, Grandifon, &c. are in the poffeffion 
of his family, and will fpeedily be pub- 
hifhed. 
‘An extenftve and valuable library of 
Chinefe books has lately been received 
from Italy by Dr. Montucci, and 
may be feen by the literati_ on apply- 
ing to that gentleman at Pancras. It 
is for fale, and canfifts of nearly twelve 
hundred volumes, which the learned pof- 
{effor hes labelled and arranged under the 
eight following claffes.* 
J. Kuon-nHoa, or the Claffical Chinefe 
Language, as written and {poken at 
Court by the Mandarines, &c. This 
cla{s is divided into the three following 
branches..- 
x. Chuea-cu, or Ancient Charaéters, 
containing four Ditionaries, each upon 
a different plan, and often quoted in the 
Memoires des Miffionaries de Pekin: fee 
alfo the Philofophical Tranfaétions, vol. 
lix. Volumes 33 
2, Chim-cu, or Modern Charaéters, as 
commonly printed and written. Con- 
taining twelve Dictionaries, each differ- 
ferent. Two of them are.MSS. - - ~ 92 
3. ‘fu-ven, or Works of Literature ; 
containing a Treatife on the Art of Poe- 
try. Three Works upon Antiquities. 
Two Colleétions of Fables, anda Glof 
fary.. Volumes. - - - - - +2 --- 63 
II. Kim,t+ or Sacred Books, Thefe are 
divided into the three following claffes. 
* Dr. Montucci follows the Portuguefe 
orthography in writing the Chinefe words, 
as the moft approved by Dr. HAGER and 
ethers. The hyphens between the Chi- 
nefe words are only put to avoid confufion in 
pronouncing and reading. 
+ It is to be obferved, that the title of 
Kim is given to all thofe works which have 
been colle&ted fince the general conflagration 
of books, which was ordered by Xi-hoam-ti, 
ef the Dynalty of Cin, 212 years before 
Chrift. Sothat the contents of them muft 
have been’ written at leaft before the end of 
the preceding Dynafty Chex, which was ex- 
tin& in the year 250, Before Chrift. Some 
of the third clafs are flrongly fufpected to be 
fpuricus, , 
This cla(s is peculiarly interefting, as 
nany of the volumes are interleaved 
with MSS. interpretations by the Mit 
fionaries. * 
1. Xam, or Upper Clafs ; containing 
the celebrated five Kim; with various 
commentaries ; called the i. Ye-Kim. 
2. Xu-Kim. 3. Xi Kim. 4. Li ki, and - 
5, Clun-gicu. To this clais belongs alfo 
the Hi-gu, :or Commentary, by Confu- 
cius, upon th: Ye-kim, or Exagramms |up- 
pofed to have been written by Fo-hi about 
2y00 years before Chrift. This colleétion 
has no lefs than eighteen various editions 
and commentaries. 222 
2. Chum, or the clafs between the up- 
per and lower ; containing the other books 
of Confucius and his difciples. The 
ancient Gloflary Ulh hia. The Li-y; 
the Cheu-li; the Kia-li; and the works of 
the celebrated philofepher Chu gu. - 105 
3. Hia, or the Lower Clals; coniain- 
ing the works of Lao cu, and other philo- 
fophers of the Tav-fe- +--+ - 108 
III, Y¥, or Mythology ; containing the 
rites and fuperttitions of the Bunzes. 
Volumes -- ~-------5-+- 78 
IV. Su, or Hittory, which is divided inte 
three main branches. 
1. Su-ki, or Hiltorical Periods; em- 
bracing the Univerls] and particular Hit 
tory of the feveral Dynafties, and Chro- 
nology. Volumes ------- . 134 
2. Yu-tu, or Geography, including 
Itineraries and Travels + ~ - «= - - 32 
3- Pe-kia, or Biography ; which con- 
tains feveral interefting works, particu- 
og eo Se at 
Jariy the Lives of the Seventy-two Difci- 
ples of Confucius. 89 
V. Liv, or Law, containing the Code of 
Laws ; the proceedings of the Six Px, or 
Tribunals, Among thefe volumes is a 
manufcript in 12 volumes containing the 
Statutes of the Prefent Tartaric Dynafly 
Ta-¢in. 53 
VI. S1m-dz, or Natural Philofophy, includ- 
ing the celebrated work publithed under 
Yum-lo, about 1400 years after Chriit ; 
alio Mathematics; fingular Plates on: 
all the Branches of Experimental Phi- 
lofophy. The celebrated Cheu-pi-kim, or 
a Treatife on Geometry, fuppofed of 
the age of Yu the Great, about 2300 
years before Chrift. Volumes <- - 53 
VII. Ga-xu, a Colle&tion of Mifcellane- 
ous Authors, Velumes - - - - - $9 
VIII. Si-jJu-ven, 
