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Festivity
BOOK III.--THE DECADE OF T'UNG KUNG.-- Celebrating a
Hunting Expedition The King's Anxiety for His Morning Levee Moral
Lessons from Natural Facts
BOOK IV.--THE DECADE OF K'E-FOO.-- On the Completion of a
Royal Palace The Condition of King Seuen's Flocks
BOOK V.--THE DECADE OF SEAOU MIN.-- A Eunuch Complains
of His Fate An Officer Deplores the Misery of the Time On the
Alienation of a Friend
BOOK VI.--THE DECADE OF PIH SHAN.-- A Picture of Husbandry
The Complaint of an Officer
BOOK VII.--DECADE OF SANG HOO.-- The Rejoicings of a
Bridegroom Against Listening to Slanderers
BOOK VIII.--THE DECADE OF TOO JIN SZE.-- In Praise of
By-gone Simplicity A Wife Bemoans Her Husband's Absence The Earl
of Shaou's Work The Plaint of King Yew's Forsaken Wife Hospitality
On the Misery of Soldiers

Part III.--Greater Odes of the Kingdom.
BOOK I.--DECADE OF KING WAN.-- Celebrating King Wan
[Book II. is omitted]
BOOK III.--DECADE OF TANG.-- King Seuen on the Occasion of a
Great Drought

Part IV.--Odes of the Temple and Altar.
BOOK I.--SACRIFICIAL ODES OF CHOW.-- Appropriate to a
Sacrifice to King Wan On Sacrificing to the Kings Woo, Ching, and
K'ang
THE TRAVELS OF FÂ-HIEN Translator's Introduction
CHAPTER I.
From Ch'ang-gan to the Sandy Desert II. On to Shen-shen and thence to
Khoten III. Khoten--Processions of Images IV. Through the Ts'ung
Mountains to K'eech-ch'a V. Great Quinquennial Assembly of Monks
VI. North India--Image of Maitreya Bodhisattva VII. The Perilous
Crossing of the Indus VIII. Woo-chang, or Udyana--Traces of Buddha
IX. Soo ho-to--Legends of Buddha X. Gandhara--Legends of Buddha
XI. Takshasila--Legends--The Four Great Topes XII. Buddha's
Alms-bowl--Death of Hwuy-king XIII. Festival of Buddha's Skull-bone
XIV. Crossing the Indus to the East XV. Sympathy of Monks with the
Pilgrims XVI. Condition and Customs of Central India XVII. Legend
of the Trayastrimsas Heaven XVIII. Buddha's Subjects of Discourse
XIX. Legend of Buddha's Danta-kashtha XX. The Jetavana
Vihara--Legends of Buddha XXI. The Three Predecessors of
Sakyamuni XXII. Legends of Buddha's Birth XXIII. Legends of Rama

and its Tope XXIV. Where Buddha Renounced the World XXV. The
Kingdom of Vaisali XXVI. Remarkable Death of Ânanda XXVII. King
Asoka's Spirit-built Palace and Halls XXVIII. Rajagriha, New and
Old--Legends Connected with It XXIX. Fâ-Hien Passes a Night on
Gridhra-kuta Hill XXX. Srataparna Cave, or Cave of the First Council
XXXI. Sakyamuni's Attaining to the Buddhaship XXXII. Legend of
King Asoka in a Former Birth XXXIII. Kasyapa Buddha's Skeleton on
Mount Gurupada XXXIV. On the Way Returning to Patna XXXV.
Dakshina, and the Pigeon Monastery XXXVI. Fâ-Hien's Indian Studies
XXXVII. Fâ-Hien's Stay in Champa and Tamalipti XXXVIII. At
Ceylon--Feats of Buddha--His Statue in Jade XXXIX. Cremation of an
Arhat--Sermon of a Devotee XL. After Two Years Fâ-Hien Takes Ship
for China
Conclusion
THE SORROWS OF HAN
Introduction Translator's Preface Dramatis Personae Prologue Act First
Act Second Act Third Act Fourth

THE ANALECTS
OF
CONFUCIUS
[Translated into English by William Jennings]

PRONUNCIATION OF PROPER NAMES
j, as in French. ng, commencing a word, like the same letters
terminating one. ai or ei, as in aisle or eider. au, as in German, or like
ow in cow. é, as in fête. i (not followed by a consonant), as ee in see. u
(followed by a consonant), as in bull. iu, as ew in new. ui, as ooi in

cooing. h at the end of a name makes the preceding vowel short. i in the
middle of a word denotes an aspirate (h), as K'ung=Khung.

INTRODUCTION
The strangest figure that meets us in the annals of Oriental thought is
that of Confucius. To the popular mind he is the founder of a religion,
and yet he has nothing in common with the great religious teachers of
the East. We think of Siddartha, the founder of Buddhism, as the very
impersonation of romantic asceticism, enthusiastic self-sacrifice, and
faith in the things that are invisible. Zoroaster is the friend of God,
talking face to face with the Almighty, and drinking wisdom and
knowledge from the lips of Omniscience. Mohammed is represented as
snatched up into heaven, where he receives the Divine communication
which he is bidden to propagate with fire and sword throughout the
world. These great teachers lived in an atmosphere of the supernatural.
They spoke with the authority of inspired prophets. They brought the
unseen world close to the minds of their disciples. They spoke
positively of immortality, of reward or punishment beyond the grave.
The present life they despised, the future was to them everything in its
promised satisfaction. The teachings of Confucius were of a very
different sort. Throughout his whole writings he has not even
mentioned the name of God. He declined to discuss the question of
immortality. When he was asked about spiritual beings, he remarked,
"If we cannot even know men, how can we know